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Tack sharp or not.... Daniel you have captured a fantastic nature story, which wins in my books over a perfectly sharp static duck. I love these!
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Great behavior picture, Daniel. I like the low shooting angle, head turn, the little creature in the beak and the water droplets on the head and in the air.
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wow, i like the water drops ambientation, you use a submarine?
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I agree with Missy. The images are unique and fantastic. Well done, Daniel.
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Great timing, great action.
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Daniel, How did you get such a low perspective in these images?
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Avian Moderator
Daniel:
I suppose that you will have to 'fess up' about your submarine at this point!
Great low shooting angle, action, blue horizon band, sense of action.
Loons will occ. come up with a mudpuppy as well. They sometimes will get it down, but it is a process for sure. It helps that a loon is substantially larger.
Cheers
Randy
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This is a killer image, Daniel! That fish is freakin' huge. I had to do a triple take. Love your low angle, the light, the water droplets. Great job on telling a great story with this image.
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Great subject matter, your self critique is spot on.
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Thanks guys!! I looked into submarines but they were too expensive...I opted for a snorkel kit. Seriously though, I lied down on the ice near the edge of open water (the ice is very thick, and the water no less than two feet deep if ever something happened...with the car and a spare clothes only a minute's walk away)
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Daniel, thanks so much for sharing these. While I thoroughly enjoy the well planned and executed artistic pictures, I am also a huge fan of behavioral/environment shots. Not everything will always be spot on with them, but they are important. Now I think I know what I saw swim out from under a bank once! -R
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Great stuff Daniel. Bummer about that shimmer negating your effort but what you captured is pretty cool. Nice that you posted the second shot even though it was below your technical standards.
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Brilliant behaviour shots Daniel! I am too scared to go near the water with my cameras/lenses. We store everything in a room with dehumidifier when not in use
Forgive my ignorance-what is the "air shimmer" you mentioned above? What causes it?
Well done in capturing those fantastic images!
Kind regards,
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Classic image with informative story.Tack sharp, beautiful colors,great low angle and composition. Love the golden eye.
Regards,
Satish.
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Gabriela, best way to describe "air shimmer" (I'm sure that is not the correct term I used though!!) is like when you drive down a straight dry road during a sunny day and you see "distortion" coming off of it in the distance, or when you look just above a very hot BBQ cover and see some "heat shimmer" coming off of it...that is kinda what I was photographing through, except it was not as pronounced and I did not notice it at time of capture.
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Daniel,
When I saw the thumbnail I thought it had its own foot in it's mouth!
Thanks for the comments about the distortion. I was photographing last week on my belly and noticed that a lot of those images came out soft. I wasn't sure if it was the way I was handholding but then realized this could be the culprit! I looked at images that I took while a bit higher from the ground and did see that those were noticeably sharper. Even if it's not noticeable at capture, it's easy to note on the screen.