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Shadow-and-Flame-86

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Hello everyone Aww

I'm a zoologist who works on marine mammals, I've just got my PhD in seal behaviour, endocrinology and neurobiology and now I work with dolphins as well as seals. I love wildlife and I hope to spend the rest of my life in the field studying animals just like I am now.

I learnt photography out of nessecity for my job and have taken it up as a hobby because its fun.

Favourite Movies
Any of the Marvel Movies, Lord of the Rings, Transformers and the Aliens/Predators movies
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Pendulum, Linkin Park, Lost Prophets, Florence + Machines, Daft Punk...
Favourite Writers
William Blake
Favourite Games
The LoK series, the original spyro series (1-3), the 1st gen pokemons... oh and dungeon keeper 2 =)
Favourite Gaming Platform
Playstation 1 or 2
Tools of the Trade
Nikon camera and lenses
Other Interests
Wildlife, photography, karate, gaming and movies.

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thanks very much for the crit PB =) I appreciate it and all the points you make are good ones.

However, this is a picture of a captive bird, not a wild one (I say in the notes under the photo that it was taken at stonham barns, a display and breeding center where I currently take all my bird of prey photos) so that is why the backround looks so 'unwild'!

If you want to edit the crit based on this then I won't hold it against you =)
I definatly don't want to appear to be passing off photos of captive birds as wild ones!
Red Kite
=D no problem, I love shooting puffins, I plan to go take more pictures of them this summer!
Puffin Profile
ok that didn't work... the links are:

Flying puffin: [link]

sleeping puffin: [link]

dueling puffins: [link]

=) enjoy!
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thank you very much for the crit! I'm glad that you like the shot :aww:

I do have a sleeping shot of a puffin here: :thumb142985584:, one of two males dueling here: :thumb142983201: and one of a puffin in flight here: :thumb142985969: if you would like to see some of my different puffin work like you suggested I try =)
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Thanks very much for this Anna, I really want to improve my seal photography (I am doing my PHD on them, so I want to be able to take amazing photos of them to remeber them!) and this is all very useful.

and yes, the sea was very choppy that day! All the more fun for the team though.
Grey Seal Haul Out