Cape Cod Cold

zigzag

I think my first post in wildlife - not much of a wildlife shooter.
..and what do you get? Seagulls! :huh Well, mostly.

I found it interesting how they weather the winter wind - let me tell you it was howling the weekend I was there. I opened the (leeward) door of the car, and it is now full of sand that blew in backwards. The sand was flying sideways. Even with a VR lens, I was getting blown about so much it was hard to get shots off.

But the gulls have it figured out. The wind apparently is the least right where the ocean meets the land. So you end up with something that looks like this:




I recorded what I think of as definitive scientific proof that seagulls have no nerve endings in their feet:




Then my girlfriend starts shouting over the wind "Shoot the babies!" So they aren't babies, but they're still pretty cute:



Hope you enjoyed these, since I froze my hands off getting them

Harryb

Very nice for a wildlife nOOb. Please explain this "freezing" thing.

Thusie

Nice job! Really like the light in the first one

Rohirrim

Nice series Mark, love the sunset in the first one. I think the second two would be better if the birds or at least one bird wasn't so strongly side lit

zigzag

Harryb wrote:

Very nice for a wildlife nOOb. Please explain this "freezing" thing.

Thanks Harry. OK, so that stuff that's hard that comes in your Gin and Tonic? It's "frozen."

zigzag

Rohirrim wrote:

Nice series Mark, love the sunset in the first one. I think the second two would be better if the birds or at least one bird wasn't so strongly side lit

The whole "death by exposure" thing sorta kept me from swimming out that way to take a picture with straight-on lighting.