Who likes Pelicans

The clarity, color and sharpness on all of these pictures is just stunning Randy!!! May I ask which lens was used for this shoot?

 

The Pelican is one of my all time favorite birds. Randy you've done an outstanding job with these captures.

 

great detail Randy

and from the lowly 80-400VR :wink:

were these at F7.1 ?

 

Wow Randy, you should take these pictures down immediately lest Nikon sees them and stops all efforts they are making on upgrading the VR on the old 80-400. I am pretty sure they are all set to come out with the advanced VR functionality on the 80-400 but what you have done with these images demonstrates one more time that it is the person behind the lens that 'eventually' makes the difference.

 

Randy,

Wow, these are great! Whereabouts did you shoot these? Where I live we see browns all the time, but only whites when migrating... Your browns look somewhat different than the ones we have here... or maybe it's just these browns?

Thanks for posting these.

Cheers,

-Yamo-

 

I'm amazed at how sharp these are. I agree this lens will do wonders in the right hands.
thanks for sharing
Tom

 

well done Randy., it sure is a good lens.

 

Randy, these are great. Did you use the D300 or D3?

 

Very striking images - the colors of the water are great. I like the 4th and 5th ones best.

I was attracted to this thread by the title - I was going to answer just the white meat. :tongue:

 

Beautiful shots of an ugly bird......I thought it was your 300vr......the 80-400 is surprisingly good.

 

Beautiful details Randy!
Fred

 

I DO I DO I DO! Especially the brown ones! That's our state bird of Louisiana! Nice captures Randy! A favorite is #3!!!!! BUT, I like em all!