Brown pelican with friends at The Pier - Nikon D300 Nikkor AF ED 80-200mm f/2.8D lens @ f/5.6 ISO 200 1/1250thIf you do not have any pelican photographs in your portfolio, you can head to The Pier in downtown St. Petersburg at almost anytime of day and have the opportunity to make one of a number of types of brown pelican images. The male brown pelican was resting on the deck along with a few friends waiting for a tourist to mount the feeding platform and toss out a few free snacks.
Photographing pelicans at The Pier is also a chance to get very close to a very large bird. They are used to having people around so you can find yourself being able to get close enough to them for it to start to kind of feel weird. The pelicans will look you in the eye kind of saying, "what?!"
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