Albatross Photographs

I finally got a few minutes after work to take some bird pictures off the end of the cargo pier. The wind was blowing 20-25 mph and the albatross where flying all around me. They are just beginning to fly and glide at there best in this kind of wind. Here is a Black-footed albatross on the top and a Laysan Albatross on the bottom. They are incredibly graceful in the air