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"The California Department of Fish and Game has chosen a dramatic photograph of two birds of prey locked in aerial battle over a fish as its "wildlife photograph of the year." The Sacramento Bee reports that Lyle Madeson shot the image in April at Clear Lake State Park, about 60 miles north of Santa Rosa. He was photographing an osprey flying straight toward him with a fish in its talons and happened to capture the moment when a juvenile red-tailed hawk swooped in to wrestle the catch away."
Photo of aerial fight over fish wins state award | Visalia Times-Delta and Tulare Advance-Register | visaliatimesdelta.com (http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/usatoday/article/39157781?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFrontpage %7Cs - broken link)
we were out shooting in nyc and were capturing the buildings and local culture.
we ended up running into some members of a very prominent national street gang .
instead of robbing us they posed for us and let us photograph them as they held up and threw all kinds of gang signs. marilyn and i dont think we could get much luckier than leaving with our gear and lives.
but such is life in nyc if you want to do street photography
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we were out shooting in nyc and were capturing the buildings and local culture.
we ended up running into some members of a very prominent national street gang .
instead of robbing us they posed for us and let us photograph them as they held up and threw all kinds of gang signs. marilyn and i dont think we could get much luckier than leaving with our gear and lives.
but such is life in nyc if you want to do street photography
I was out in the woods with the camera setting up to capture a couple of shots of a deer that I saw coming toward me. Just as I was getting set, there was a commotion behind me. I spun around and saw a Red-Tailed hawk take off from just grabbing a Chipmunk of the ground. He then landed on a dead log about 25-30 feet away from me and proceeded to eat his lunch. As gruesome as it was, it was also fascinating. He stayed there until he was almost totally done, then took off through the trees with what was left. I burned through a serious amount of pixels, only to discover I hadn't changed my settings from the last thing I shot and shot them all with ISO 800, which is fairly noisy in an entry level camera. I about cried when I saw the settings when I got back to my truck. One of the few times I wish I had chimped the settings on a regular basis (even though they looked fine on the small display, and the histograms were about where I expected them to be.) In almost 48 years of knocking around the woods, this opportunity had NEVER happened before and I don't expect it to happen again. Kind of makes a sour ball in the stomach just thinking about it again.
This one is a 100% crop of the one just above it. I was happy with how they turned out considering the settings. I did learn the lesson to CHECK SETTINGS EVERY TIME, even if you think you know what they are (or should be).
I was out in the woods with the camera setting up to capture a couple of shots of a deer that I saw coming toward me. Just as I was getting set, there was a commotion behind me. I spun around and saw a Red-Tailed hawk take off from just grabbing a Chipmunk of the ground. He then landed on a dead log about 25-30 feet away from me and proceeded to eat his lunch. As gruesome as it was, it was also fascinating. He stayed there until he was almost totally done, then took off through the trees with what was left. I burned through a serious amount of pixels, only to discover I hadn't changed my settings from the last thing I shot and shot them all with ISO 800, which is fairly noisy in an entry level camera. I about cried when I saw the settings when I got back to my truck. One of the few times I wish I had chimped the settings on a regular basis (even though they looked fine on the small display, and the histograms were about where I expected them to be.) In almost 48 years of knocking around the woods, this opportunity had NEVER happened before and I don't expect it to happen again. Kind of makes a sour ball in the stomach just thinking about it again.
This one is a 100% crop of the one just above it. I was happy with how they turned out considering the settings. I did learn the lesson to CHECK SETTINGS EVERY TIME, even if you think you know what they are (or should be).
I have done that myself (usually forgetting to quickly switch to shutter priority) but your photos came out excellent and it's a great story.
Wow! I've got goosebumps from the stories and photos in this thread. I don't have any great photo-op stories to share........yet!
I hope to see lots more here in the days to come. Great idea for a thread, LauraC.
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I have to be put on PJSinger's list of, "I haven't had this happen to me yet". I've had tons of near-misses of some great stuff, but am always that one second too late to get it. The NYC gang shots are neat - they would probably have just mugged me.
I once did see NeNe Leakes of The Real Housewives of Atlanta picking her nose in the Georgia Aquarium and I just about killed myself trying to catch THAT on a shot, but there were 5,000 people in-between me and her - I missed it and she took off through the crowd shortly after. Ok, so that's not art or nature, but I coulda sold it to TMZ. LOL.
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