Men and their ...ahem... Roosters

cmr164cmr164 Registered Users Posts: 1,542 Major grins
edited January 20, 2005 in Wildlife
It was an overcast day and I had the shutter set at 1/250. I had no idea that I would come across this scene and these guys really move. You can not even see more than a ball of blur while they are fighting.

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Charles Richmond IT & Security Consultant
Operating System Design, Drivers, Software
Villa Del Rio II, Talamban, Pit-os, Cebu, Ph

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  • cmr164cmr164 Registered Users Posts: 1,542 Major grins
    edited January 19, 2005
    cmr164 wrote:
    It was an overcast day and I had the shutter set at 1/250. I had no idea that I would come across this scene and these guys really move. You can not even see more than a ball of blur while they are fighting.

    I want to clarify that the cocks were not injured! The one sharp talon is covered by a concave rubber strapped on er... object. Look carefully at the pics.
    Charles Richmond IT & Security Consultant
    Operating System Design, Drivers, Software
    Villa Del Rio II, Talamban, Pit-os, Cebu, Ph
  • snapapplesnapapple Registered Users Posts: 2,093 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2005
    cmr164 wrote:
    I want to clarify that the cocks were not injured! The one sharp talon is covered by a concave rubber strapped on er... object. Look carefully at the pics.

    Hi Charles,
    Is this in Cebu? I'm glad to hear the cocks don't kill each other. I suppose the men bet on them, huh? I guess the man would not want his pet killed. The cocks look very beautiful. I wish you had a picture of one of them just standing still. You did a good job of capturing the action of the fight.
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  • lynnmalynnma Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 5,208 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2005
    cmr164 wrote:
    I want to clarify that the cocks were not injured! The one sharp talon is covered by a concave rubber strapped on er... object. Look carefully at the pics.
    so how do you know who is the winner...
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  • cmr164cmr164 Registered Users Posts: 1,542 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2005
    snapapple wrote:
    Hi Charles,
    Is this in Cebu? I'm glad to hear the cocks don't kill each other. I suppose the men bet on them, huh? I guess the man would not want his pet killed. The cocks look very beautiful. I wish you had a picture of one of them just standing still. You did a good job of capturing the action of the fight.
    Not Cebu, but north Mindinao outside of Butuan. I think they were trial fights or training seesions as I did not see any gambling. And yes the are really beautiful. The one in the last picture is just incedible. I had never seen a cock like that before. Thanks for the kind words, I do have other shots of the fight that are even harder to figure out and were not included. Oh yea, standstill, hehe only when held or in the pause just before total annilation as in pic #2.
    Charles Richmond IT & Security Consultant
    Operating System Design, Drivers, Software
    Villa Del Rio II, Talamban, Pit-os, Cebu, Ph
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