Sunday, 18 May 2014

A very overdue update!

It has been such a long time since my last update, this has been partly due to me moving to a new apartment and not being able to get the internet to work for a long time. But all is sorted now and so now I have a chance to throw a bumper update in! I have three days to talk about, we're at the end of our massive Humpback season and now we have a tonne of Minke Whales in Faxaflói.
But as we're now in summer season the sea conditions and weather have become mostly amazing, days when there is around 1m of swell I start thinking it's rough conditions. Makes such a difference to the winter when that would have been a calm day! I miss the Humpbacks and Killer Whales but the sea conditions make sailing incredibly relaxing. Guiding days like this can be just fantastic.
I've also started using a much more professional photo processor along with my new camera being able to shoot in RAW files. So hopefully everything will look much more shiny from now on!

Look, good Harbour Porpoise pictures! 

This was a big pod that were swimming with our boat for a long time, unusual behaviour from these cetaceans.

The face of a porpoise! So cute!

A huge fluke from a huge Humpback, the last one I've seen so far this year. 

Back to the Minkes! 

I live right by the Reykjavík pond, Tjörnin where a sizeable bird population lives. On good days you can get some amazing pictures!

This picture has such great potential but was out of focus so I pulled the attention to the contrasting colours of the gull and water.


As you can imagine plenty of people were feeding the birds bread.


Puffins!

The puffins have been back for a while and the chance to finally get some good pictures of them is here!

Thanks for reading!