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Random Photo thread

years ago when fishing at the top of Cape York in Aus, place called Bamaga. Catching catfish after catfish, (about 4 of them), a White-Bellied Sea-Eagle was sitting in a tree watching me. Threw the dead fish back and crouched beside my ute. Set the camera on bust, (old Panasonic 6.5 Mp 4 frames per second), this was before they had all the whizzbangs like GPs and auto cloud send/capture, so for a 6.5 mp it actually took good pics.

Camera was stationary, (Hand held), focused on the dead fish in the water. Got 2 pics of the eagle just before and after she grabbed the fish.........Joined both the pics with a program i got with my cannon EOS 550D

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I was a bit lucky with the burst, manual action and hit the shutter just as i saw her come into view. The first pic was her just in the frame and the second was just before she was out of the frame. Ist time the eagle came in for the fish she saw me, flew off and sat in the tree for a bit. This was the second time around
 
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Here is another of the White-Bellied Sea-Eagle around Bamaga. Cloudy day but still quite bright...........About 7 or 8 Whistling Kites were cruising up and down the shore line looking for fish. I lay on my back and took a heap of pics looking for that good one.......A white-bellied Sea-Eagle came cruising up through the middle of them, Like a mac truck amongst a bunch of cars.......
Original pic
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Whistling Kite has a wingspan of 3 to 3 1/2ft........White-bellied Sea-Eagle is up to, 6 or 7ft
 
Crop'd and enhanced..........can see the interaction between the two birds......note how the sea-eagle has stretched out its wing. If those wing tip feathers hit the kite it would break its wing or damage its feathers

arcsoft enhance x Copy of P1090183.jpg
 
Dogma said:
That is very cool stuff. I guess you get to see a lot of that kind of thing while out fishing.
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Do see some great things but 99% of the time it has happened and gone before you can think about the camera. The Eagle harassing the Kite was pure luck as well. A fraction of a second before or after and the shot wouldn't be there.
 
Eli69 said:
Squirrel!!!

Sorry, I can't help it.
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Would this be a reference to the movie Up, Christmas Vacation, or the far more obscure and weird Freaked?;)

Great shot Bob. Another example of not needing the latest/ greatest tech to get a good shot.
 
From a short jaunt into the hills today. Note to self: Come back in the fall when the deciduous trees are in colour.



P1010848 by soates50, on Flickr
 
Beautiful shot Sandy. I got a bit of a laugh as I looked at it. I scrolled up on it with my tablet and only saw the river and background and thought "nice". Then I clicked on it and saw the full image with the foreground and reflection and thought "aaah". The foreground really completes the shot.
 
The caliber of images posted in this thread has continued to get better and better. It's noticeable. Clearly recognizable 'styles' with aesthetic preferences for specific colours, subject matter and composition, give lots of interesting variety. Good stuff and a go-to thread for me.

DB- curious, the horizontal red stripe and dotted line in the last walls image work in the overall image. What are they in the real world and how did they get there?
 
I'm going to guess before DB replies, but I'll bet you a dollar, that this was a timed exposure and a vehicle w/ red tail/brake lights streaked across the composition through the whole time the shutter was open.
 
Thanks Dave. That was a long exposure shot and a car passed by while the picture was being taken. The red is obviously taillights, but I'm not sure about the dots.
Usually when a car passes like that there will be a bright white stripe from the headlights, but I'm guessing that since the camera was aimed somewhat in the direction that the car was going they didn't show up. I think that bright branch on the low right was from the headlights.

The car was purely happenstance.

Edit / add. Rich gets a dollar:)
 
:greedy_dollars::greedy_dollars::greedy_dollars::greedy_dollars::greedy_dollars::greedy_dollars::onthego::onthego::onthego::onthego:
 
That makes sense. The car must have been travelling in a straight line across the image as the red line remains constant. It bends slightly where it crosses the wall corner. Another dollar for the reason for that...
 
DaveR said:
That makes sense. The car must have been travelling in a straight line across the image as the red line remains constant. It bends slightly where it crosses the wall corner. Another dollar for the reason for that...
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bump in the road?
 
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