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jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
edited May 30, 2005 in Wildlife
these are the guys I went to find today
Jeff W

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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2005
    jwear wrote:
    these are the guys I went to find today
    second
    Jeff W

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    http://jwear.smugmug.com/
  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2005
    jwear wrote:
    second
    third
    Jeff W

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  • KhaosKhaos Registered Users Posts: 2,435 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2005
    I like that 3rd one. Since it's not saturated with much color, have you thought of B&W? You could have fun with it with the water texture the way it is.
  • Eric&SusanEric&Susan Registered Users Posts: 1,280 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2005
    I like how in the first one it kinda looks like a progression of how they open their wings.


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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2005
    Khaos wrote:
    I like that 3rd one. Since it's not saturated with much color, have you thought of B&W? You could have fun with it with the water texture the way it is.
    we just talked about my ps expertice headscratch.gif maybe after i get to page 10 :Drolleyes1.gif Jeff L gave me a book this morning on ps so maybe after i learn something
    Jeff W

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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2005
    Eric&Susan wrote:
    I like how in the first one it kinda looks like a progression of how they open their wings.


    Eric
    that was a set of 8 shots the first thing i saw was 2 and i had time to get closer because they circled .They waited for #3 and thats him at the bottom getting it step :D
    Jeff W

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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2005
    They are so Graceful To Watch
    jwear wrote:
    these are the guys I went to find today
    Hi there.......... I love to watch Pelicans in flight they are like small planes as they circle around, we get them down by the boat ramp, and sometimes when I'm out looking to see if it's my brother or cousin flying over you can see the Pelicans looking for Thermals and going up higher and higher and higher in a circle as they ride it up.

    My brother and my cousin both fly UltraLights, when they come over my house they always do a circle and fly lower so I know it's them :D

    Their flight pattern takes them along the coast, and I live on the coast so they are not out of their legal flying space.

    I noticed your Pelicans are the White ones with Black markings, where are the Brown ones found?? all over USA or only in certain area?

    Thanks for sharing........ Skippy (Australia)
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2005
    Skippy wrote:
    Hi there.......... I love to watch Pelicans in flight they are like small planes as they circle around, we get them down by the boat ramp, and sometimes when I'm out looking to see if it's my brother or cousin flying over you can see the Pelicans looking for Thermals and going up higher and higher and higher in a circle as they ride it up.

    My brother and my cousin both fly UltraLights, when they come over my house they always do a circle and fly lower so I know it's them :D

    Their flight pattern takes them along the coast, and I live on the coast so they are not out of their legal flying space.

    I noticed your Pelicans are the White ones with Black markings, where are the Brown ones found?? all over USA or only in certain area?

    Thanks for sharing........ Skippy (Australia)
    white and brown mostly on the coastal area.Both coasts, white are more inland in some areas .the first shot are the brown they were north of the wet lands where the white ones were and the brown feed by diving into the water and the white feed while swimming , did anyone know that headscratch.gif
    Jeff W

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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2005
    I like the 1st and last and won't say anything about PS :D
  • GREAPERGREAPER Registered Users Posts: 3,113 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2005
    That third one is my favorite Jeff. Very sharp, nice composition. Well done.
  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited May 30, 2005
    GREAPER wrote:
    That third one is my favorite Jeff. Very sharp, nice composition. Well done.
    thanks the others hard shots I was just happy after all this time I got both brown and white thanks for looking thumb.gif
    Jeff W

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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited May 30, 2005
    bfjr wrote:
    I like the 1st and last and won't say anything about PS :D
    now you know I thank you very much on both counts rolleyes1.gif and no pm
    Jeff W

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited May 30, 2005
    hey Jeff,

    I really like the third shot. Its very well composed. thumb.gif The first two seem a tad soft.
    Harry
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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited May 30, 2005
    Yep, I knew that :-)
    jwear wrote:
    white and brown mostly on the coastal area.Both coasts, white are more inland in some areas .the first shot are the brown they were north of the wet lands where the white ones were and the brown feed by diving into the water and the white feed while swimming , did anyone know that headscratch.gif

    We saw our first brown pelicans this weekend. They must have "returned" while we were in NY :):

    We had some white pelicans on the east side of the bay and we noticed they were on the water in a bunch. I did a google and found out they "fish" together on the water.

    The brown ones dive into the water to catch their fish.

    The white ones are larger than the brown ones too!

    I've read rumors of some white pelicans in the baylands, but I've never spotted them there. Unfortunately the place I used to watch them they are returning to the wild (it was a salt pond) and a lot of the water has gone out of the area. We didn't see the white pelicans return to that area last year.

    Anyone in the San Francisco area know where the white pelicans are, please let me know?

    I did see some flying around Benecia when we went to the camel races one time. But I don't usually hang in that area.
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