Wildlife photography is particularly grueling, it's basically the whole difficulty of hunting in finding the animals, but then an extra layer of difficulty for all the photo related stuff (lighting, composition, technicalities, shooting very long focal lengths and so on).
That said, a few hundred clicks is not really a big deal, sometimes I come home from gigs with north of 3000 clicks for a single day of shooting. Is what it is.
While I've not had the chance to visit your amazing national parks yet, I understand that they're an experience and a proper visit type of outing. I can see how that would work there because you'd hope most people visiting have made a conscious decision to go into nature, are prepared for it etc. I'm not sure a similar strategy would work in normal areas where people just exist, there I definitely think easy access to triaged trash cans is best.
What a twist, the movies write themselves.
The finn special.
Wow I was still thinking my 8 was somewhat recent but now I learn they're on 13?!?
That's level 1, when you've watched the behind the scenes as often as I did this basically goes on non-stop through the viewing.
Those eyes definitely look like they've been deformed in post.
It's funny, I just came to the comments to say I initially thought it was just gonna be another one of these annoying pour techniques that just use a ton of paint with barely any input from the "artist", but I thought this one ended up being genuinely crafted and the end result looked interesting too, at least brushes were involved...
I'm not going to look up the specific lenses and stick to general advice you can apply to your choices.
The 100mm is great, I've had the EF version for many years and use it with an adapter. It is macro but it's macro light, you're not going fly eyes with this alone. And while it's a great lens beyond just macro (great for portraits, product, anything where you need a mid-length telephoto really), it's definitely gonna limit you if it's your only lens and you're on a crop.
So maybe macro tubes, these shouldn't break the bank and will transform any lens into macro (bit more finicky than using the 100mm though!)..
But then you still need to choose the focal length for your prime, and there you have somewhat opposed requirements. For macro you don't want too short, because even if the tubes let you focus very close, you don't want to have to stick the lens right next to your subject lest you'll introduce distortion, spook the living ones and/or cast shadows with the camera on it.
So while I'd normally recommend 35mm full frame equivalent as "the one prime" if your main goal is macro you probably want significantly longer... It's up to you, just keep in mind that while you're telling yourself you only need one lens for now, that's not gonna last and you're definitely gonna get more down the line ;p
"I could probably tell you if they're any good just by looking at them but sure, we can test them"
Looking for group.
I think they're having the opposite problem right now.