Selected because of the Memory

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This photo was shot atop a rocky cliff that is the breeding grounds for the Waved Albatross on Espanola Island, Galapagos.

I climbed up the cliff over the kind of rocks and boulders that you see in this additional photo http://www.pbase.com/britestar/image/158984782
Luckily, it was a cloudy, overcast day, or else I wouldn't have survived the brutal climb.

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I picked this shot, over others that may be "better", merely because this was my very FIRST photo of the very first Waved Albatross that I encountered.

Waved Albatross are critically Endangered in the Wild http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3955
Three fourth the Albatross eggs laid - in nests that I saw - had been abandoned and would never hatch.
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To see more of my 2014 Top Twelve "Favorites" from this camera body, go to http://www.pbase.com/britestar/canon_1dx_twelve_2014_favorites

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