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 Skimmers w/ Great Reflections from today (Aug 7th) | |
On an amazingly calm day where I looked over the water and just prayed for a few passes of some low, slow flying skimmers it came to pass. Just a couple made passes near enough to get some great shots, and I did my best to take advantage of the situation. Many more were out near the reddish egret and made several passes where they never flapped, they simply skimmed with their wings out straight horizontally. It was still impressive.
While the wingtip clipping happened in far too many shots I really liked the effect anyway. These shots are not cropped at all, just trimmed down to 1200 pixels when exported from LightRoom2.
Without further ado, here are the shots I chose to post today. Hopefully no one is getting tired of seeing so many shots of these magnificent birds. Sadly, they will be migrating out of the area in the near future, and it will be another eight months or so until they return.
I REALLY loved how these two shots would normally not have been very good as its wing covered its face - but the reflection revealed what the direct view couldn't.
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Very nice job on the follow focusing, what a great reward to have these shot captured!