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The breeding season is in full swing with incredible numbers of puffins, razorbills and guillemots gathering around Skomer Island during beautiful evening light. Hundreds of thousands of Manx shearwaters gather in rafts in St Brides Bay at dusk. Please PM me if you would like details of trips.

This link to A Year in the Life of a Puffin will answer many questions you may have and assist in getting great shots http://www.andydavies.info/puffin/1.html

If you go to to comments made here http://www.andydavies.info/pages/workshops/skomer.html on participants gallery pages, here on my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/andydaviesphotographyvideo/ and on Tripadvisor here...

You will have a very high success rate of capturing puffins in flight with a 200mm on an FX sensor.

It carries 52 passengers and is very stable. I'll be doing the lifejacket demonstration if you come over with me. I'll make sure you're the first one to be given one ;)

The ferry crossing only takes 10 minutes over a sheltered stretch of water so no need to worry about that.

Interesting as this is what you thought of the day http://www.andydavies.info/pages/client/garyjenkins.html I certainly make sure that no one is left on their own and stress that I am there all day to support everyone on a one-to-one basis as well as holding group sessions.

Thanks. The varying size of the images is down to the different cameras that participants use and the crops that they send me.

I have just published this portfolio from 2015 http://www.andydavies.info/skomer%20portfolios/Skomer%20Island%20Photography%20Workshops%20Participant's%20Portfolio%202015.pdf

This is an article that I wrote for the Guardian last year on the Top 10 Best Wildlife Sites in Pembrokeshire http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/gallery/2012/jul/10/top-10-wildlife-pembrokeshire-wales-pictures

I've just written about my first impressions of the Nikon D800 and how I initially set it up here http://www.andydavies.info/​pages/news.html You can download full resolution jpegs by clicking on the thumbnails.

I bought an Amersitep Doghouse blind on ebay where they appear now and then. Here is an outlet http://www.overstock.com/Sports-Toys/Ameristep-Doghouse-Realtree-AP-Camo-Blind/5985827/product.html?cid=133635 I replaced the useless black poles with some aluminium ones from Simon Cull at this...

If the Farnes are anythig like Skomer, your biggest problem are that the puffins are too close to focus on with a long focal length lens such as the 300mm. A 70-200 with the ability to focus close in is the best bet. The other problem you will have is the extreme contrast between the extremely...