CONTACT. Cormorant Take Off

Osprey Whisperer

Cormorant take off series. Early morning light and reflections off the water. I forget exactly where this was taken...but know it was during the wild and crazy Florida MI3 shoot. :dunno :scratch Where were the cormorants?
I think it was "Gatorland" :scratch

Thanks for looking.

Osprey Whisperer

Another "take off"...

riddim_maker

Nice and clean take off. Love the reflection.
Did you get to capture any of the landings?:D

Thusie

Cool shots!

Rohirrim

Lovely series Mike, great action captured and some reflections too! Although, next time I think you should ask for smoother water rolleyes

Osprey Whisperer

Thanks Russ, Thusie & Steve. I appreciate you taking the time to looksee 'n' comment.

Steve...it was that darn warm tropical breeze causing the ripples on the water. Guess we all can't have frozen flat ice mirrors on our ponds this time of year.

livinginoz

very nice series. they sure leave a heck of a wake as they go.

Harryb

Twp excellent series Mike. I prefer the second one because the first had a few blow outs.

Good captures of an extremely difficult subject. I have tried to capture them landing and taking off w/o your success here.

Osprey Whisperer

Thanks Laurie and Harry. Appreciate you taking a look.

Harry...did I blow highlights? Something's gotten funky with ACR and the conversions. In the EOS viewer the originals (pre conversion) look underexposed a tad..if anything. Definitely no blown highlights. I better put a rush on reading that ACR book. I use to convert in EOS viewer when I was extra lazy. I think this resulted in better conversion...but supposedly ACR is better? I'll mention this again.. I HATE POST RPOCESSING. I just want to mash on the trigger.... shoot ...shoot..shoot..shoot. :gun2 :rambo :gun2

jwear

they are too fast too clumsy too dark too light too dam hard shot but you did ok for a young guy now were are the eagle shots

ian408

god those are ugly birds when they're taking off. nothing like a duck or
egret--almost as if they just lumber into the sky.

beautiful series though. i especially like the second set too.

ian

Osprey Whisperer

Thanks Jeff and Ian. These are not the most attractive birds...nor the most graceful at take off. They are fun to shoot...though.

Jeff...those eagle shots are coming...along with the pineapple pizzas.