Adrian Binney, EPSA, LRPS  


King Baby Being Fed by Adrian Binney, EPSA, LRPS

October 2025 - King Baby Being Fed

October 2025 - Adrian Binney, EPSA, LRPS

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My last penguin shot - promise, for a while anyway, as I hope to be at the Falklands again in February. This was January 2023. There was a large group of kings mostly huddled together and those mothers with young were inevitably not near the edge! So I tried to take some mother & child shots when ever the ‘herd’ moved slightly to enable a photograph - then of course, the mother/child had to be doing something interesting!

So I didn’t get many, but this is one with reasonable clarity what is going on. The baby must have been very young.

Settings - 1/800 f8 ISO200 after -3/4 stop compensation to protect the white areas - at 406mm (so 812mm FF) using my Olympus wildlife kit inc 150-400 f4.5 lens. In PP I cropped as much as I dared from the left, but didn’t have much room from the right. I lifted the shadows via masks.


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Cindy Marple   Cindy Marple
(Groups 67 & 91)
Hi Adrian, Persistence paid off getting a reasonably clear shot of this interaction. The crop is effective. Nice job recovering the detail in the shadows.
I had the good luck to also see young chicks there several years ago- I think the colony may have been smaller then. There was one very newly hatched chick (the eggshell was near) and it wasn't much smaller than the one here. So I'd guess this one is days or at most a couple of weeks old. Very special encounter, well captured.   Posted: 10/05/2025 23:38:27



 

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