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I am finishing up this blog post just before dinner on Friday, October 30, 2015 in Stanley, The Falklands. We have a day trip to a Rockhopper Penguin colony and board the Ortelius tomorrow afternoon. Our visits to Bleaker–where today’s featured image was created–and to The Rookery on Saunders Island, were great. We flew back to Stanley, capital of the Falklands, this morning. The internet is not bad at the Malvina house so I am hoping that this and several other new blog posts will be published from the cloud during my time aboard ship. <\/p>\n

While traveling in the Southern Ocean I will be 100% without internet from 1-14 NOV. Jim will be in the office doing his usually stellar job of minding the store and Jen will be here to help with with all things IPT related. You can reach either of them by phone at 863-693-0906. You can reach Jim by e-mail<\/a><\/center> or Jen at e-mail<\/a><\/center> (the latter with Attn. JEN in the Subject line). <\/p>\n

Please refrain from e-mailing me from 23 OCT through 15 NOV. Fat chance on that. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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This image was created on Bleaker Island, on our first-ever land-based Falklands tour, with the Induro tripod\/Mongoose M3.6-mounted Canon EF 400mm f\/4 DO IS II USM lens<\/a>, the Canon Extender EF 2X III<\/a>, and the rugged professional body, the Canon EOS-1D X.<\/a> ISO 1000 (via ISO safety shift). Evaluative metering +2\/3 stop: 1\/200 sec. at f\/8 in Tv mode. AWB. <\/p>\n

Center AF point (by necessity)\/AI Servo Expand\/Rear Focus AF as framed was active at the moment of exposure. The active AF point was on the center of the bird\u2019s breast. Click here<\/a> to see the latest version of the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version. Click here<\/a> to see the latest version of the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version. <\/p>\n