KirkB wrote:
Your photography is always excellent Tony, and now I see that you're a very fine documenter as well.
This is both a fascinating and informative post in seeing the cycle of nature continue.
Excellent work, thanks so much for sharing this.
BTW, love the back lit Gull in #10... very well done.
Kirk
Thanks, Kirk. I can only wish that my photography was always excellent.
Tony
Nov 09, 2009 at 01:09 PM
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Mergansers IF is terrific Tony and compostition of the BE shot is wonderful
Appreciate the documentary on the salmon saga of life and great images tell the story
Hungtran10 wrote:
cool documentation of the circle of life. i like the clarity of the water and the ripples on #2. interesting fleshy textures on the rotting fish. nice work on the merganser bif.
- hung
Thanks, Hung. I should be using a polarizer on those water shots, but I don't have one and can't afford to lose two f-stops in that poor lighting.
Netgarden wrote:
Spooky dead fish skeleton! Cool stuff. Sounds like an awesome place to take it all in. Nice series Tony.
Thanks, Linda. My wife can't stand to watch the fish spawning. It is rather sad seeing the fish struggle upstream and their physiology decline so rapidly.
Martin Good wrote:
Great pics Tony with a very educational and interesting narrative. Top pics are # 9 of the BE, # 6 for its starkness and impact and # 10 of the GIF.
Martin
mark fadely wrote:
What a cool series Tony - great text and pics - #3 FIF (Fish in Flight) - don't see that too often. They all are great, but surprisingly I like the gulls the best. Funny how an exquisite presentation can make even the most common bird a fav.
Thanks, Mark. I like gulls best when they are backlit. You would not believe how many gulls we can get when the fish are spawning. They often number in the tens of thousands.
This is a great documentary series. It looks like the Little Qualicum is a magnet
for wildlife and you're very lucky to live nearby. I've been to Vancouver Island 20+
years ago and I stayed at a motel on Qualicum beach. I can't remember the name of that motel but I still remember the beautiful sunset
on that day and I took a picture of that sunset,making a poster size print and it's still hanging on the wall.
I want to visit there again.
Tony I`m a few islands north of you ( on Prince of Wales ) & have been trying for years to document a very similar ecosystem without success. Anyone never having tried it probably will not realize the difficulty involved in attempting to shoot spawing & spawned out salmon with any degree of visual appeal. Also its very hard to get interesting shots of seals with only the head visable above the surface of the water. You have done an extraordinary job of this. I congratulate you. Now if there was some way to include the odor in the air during the run. Those that have not experienced it cannot possibly imagine. Thanks for sharing. Take care. Bob
