We spent an extended and very pleasant weekend in San Diego/Coronado, California. I hope to post a report with a few photos as soon as I can work through the backlog of work and errands that accumulated while we were away. In the meantime, here’s a teaser photo of four pelicans gliding along the coastline at the Cabrillo National Monument:
What a wonderful photo, like all your photos. How do you do that?!
Rob, thanks for the kind words. I wish I could take credit for having a good eye or a skillful hand, but most of these pictures are the photographic equivalent of closing my eyes and hoping for the best!
This one is a good example. I was using my “travel camera,” a little Sony point-and-shoot that slips into a shirt pocket. Small groups of pelicans were flying back and forth along the cliffs at Cabrillo, and sometimes we were almost at eye level with them. Most of the time I couldn’t even keep them in the camera frame, or they were back-lit by the sun, or too far away. This shot just happened to work out.
Sweet…such perfect formation, like the Blue Angels. You did a great job of capturing it at just the right moment…not even a blurry wing tip!
this is so great! Looking forward to more. Are you going to post the monkey one?
Thanks! I may post the “monkey one” but probably without the caption. 😉
Thanks, Gwynne. It wasn’t hard to avoid the dreaded “wingtip blur,” as they were in glide mode all the way. I’m always amazed at how an otherwise ungainly bird can be so graceful in the air.
Beautiful shot, Eric.
Your pictures are great but your big honkin gorilla is actually an orangutan.
Jim, I’ll defer to your superior powers of simian recognition, and apologize for my lax terminology. Orangutan it is!