Up Close and Pelicanal at Bolsa Chica
When the smelt come into Bolsa Chica, so do the pelicans. These were taken a few months ago.
Added note: I don't know why these are not loading right, but if you are getting the "red X" for some of these frames, try hitting the reload button on your browser (it's the circular arrow button).
1. Starting to dive.
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3. Dive
4. At sunset.
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Added note: I don't know why these are not loading right, but if you are getting the "red X" for some of these frames, try hitting the reload button on your browser (it's the circular arrow button).
1. Starting to dive.
2.
3. Dive
4. At sunset.
5.
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Hi John, the first two images didnt show up for me until I tried to reply to your post then they appeared
How lucky were you go get the entire Pelican in flight in the shot, I've tried this a few times but they take off too fast, and I'm usually standing too close to them....thanks for sharing...... Skippy
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Skippy --- I have had the same problem with the images and have had to push the "reload" (double arrow) button several times before they will show. Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing the problem? --- John
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Some very good photos indeed! I love the "dive" one with the look of great intent. Can you hear the pelican thinking, stay there little fishy, I'm comin' to get ya!?
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Standing too close????? huh, huh?
I remember Harryb post a photo of pelicans standing behind some fisherman (like the sea gulls will do here on the west coast when they spot the fisherman cleaning the fish) but our pelicans are always high in the sky and too far for my lens to get more than a speck in the sky. OK, so I'm exaggerating a bit.
If I drive 5 hours I can see them at the north end of Pismo Beach and have a fighting chance of getting the pelican to fill my viewfinder... and once, a long time ago I got to stand near one at Santa Cruz, but now it seems they are trying to get the tourists NOT to feed the pelicans and gulls and sea lions.
Even at the baylands one needs a good long zoom to get the white pelicans who keep their distance from people. Sigh!
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The lighting on the fence sitter is that great late light we get in Southern California in the fall. By the way, I emailed HarryB for advice on fixing this pic loading problem.
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You ought to enter #4 in the butt-fest thread.
Cheers,
-joel
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I've got a lot more of those, Joel, but processing them would put my photo work in arrears. Maybe I could expedite--if you think the ends justify the means.