[LRflex] Re: IMG: Ricochets - Doug et al.]
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- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:54:55 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
looks to me like they're running, very typical behavior.
Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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>From: Philippe AMARD <philippe.amard@xxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Oct 22, 2008 8:52 AM
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>Subject: [LRflex] [Fwd: Re: [Leica] IMG: Ricochets - Doug et al.]
>
>Thanks all for your interest.
>
>And thanks Doug for the photo to illustrate the explanations given.
>
>In my case, I'm not sure they really intended to take off - they simply
>"ricocheted" /bounced for about 300 yards then gave up and stayed there.
>It may have been for them a way to get there faster and I didn't notice
>they were actually paddling, I mean the feet didn't "run". They simply
>bounced.
>
>I've just uploaded the other two shots I took ( cropped for curious
>minds to see the legs). You'll see that the feet don't seem to run.
>Rather, it's like skiing, or hydrofoils.
>The intial picture is number two of three.
>The first shot is labelled nb 3, and the last one number 2, could be
>confusing, the were actually fly/gliding from right to left and not in the
>reverse ;-) .
><http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Oiseaux/Ricochets+_1+sur+1_-3.jpg.html>
>
>Steve - camera speed was 1/640.
>
>Thanks all for your interest and lights.
>Philippe
>
>
>Ric Carter wrote:
>
>> Actually, they're more like footprints. Swans (and many other water
>> fowl) run across the water very fast to take off. You are seeing the
>> footprints at different stages of splash - sort of a realtime version
>> of time lapse photography.
>>
>> ric
>>
>>
>> On Oct 22, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Steve Barbour wrote:
>>
>>> I see the bird frozen in space but the water kicked up from each
>>> wingbeat...was there some trickery or mutiple images involved?
>>
>>
>>
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