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"Well done, Hank; if weather (and family... and the bird of course!) cooperates I may make a run up on Saturday.  Such a distinctive look!   cheers, Paul"

"nice capture of the colours and markings, David"

"Amazing shot, Nelson -- well done grabbing a pose full of character when I'm sure you might have been as startled as it was!"

"what a great shot, and a good bird, Hank! "

"Glenn, I think I see raindrops in the picture too -- it lends a nice atmosphere to the picture as we enter fall..."

"Cool!!  That is quite a tome of information, I had read the earlier thread but didn't realize how well it applied to published pictures.  I see I forgot an exposure adjustment I had made when I shot the picture: -2/3 stop under…"

"Yes, I'd already peaked at it when Robert asked the question, to view the EXIF data you have to click "View Full Size" to get it alone on a web page, then copy the url and paste it into jeffery's search box.  Here's the…"

"You can see the exif data if you use Jeffrey's Exif Viewer (on line)"

"thanks;  it was interesting to see the variation between the individuals we saw; some were definitely lighter (as above), others quite steely; I'm sure some of this variation is simply due to changes in lighting while we were on the water,…"

"hi Robert, thanks.  For this one I used my Canon 50D and a 100-400L lens, 400mm, f/10, ISO 400 and 1/800s.  I was wondering if exif data was preserved in the upload but I see that's not the case. Charles, Denis, Bev: thanks for the…"

"Very nice shot Paul. The primaries molt is complete on this pale phase adult South Polar Skua. It is now molting the secondaries. They will soon head south to their colonies!"