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Challenge: Free Study 2008-11 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Location: Artist lake
Date: Nov 11, 2008
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Landscape, Birds
Date Uploaded: Nov 11, 2008

 I guess one of these birds found a a fishing lure in the water and the other bird tried to steal it. At first when I found them they were having a tug-o-war with it on land and they flew out over the water with it. In some of the previous photos it be came appartent that the hook was some how lodged in one of the birds beak and couldn't get it out. The other bird dragged him into flight, in the middle of the lake the both landed and continued to struggle until it became free. At that point neither bird wanted anything to do with the decoy fish and both flew away. Mean time all the other seagulls were watching and waiting to catch a part of the fish or so they thought.

I was shooting in ap mode at 5.6, now I wish I have been shooting at 1/1000 shutter speed to freeze it a little better by bumping up the iso to 200. I think this may do farely well, at least over a 5.5.

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Place: 206 out of 417
Avg (all users): 5.6026
Avg (commenters): 6.2500
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Views since voting: 692
Views during voting: 243
Votes: 151
Comments: 13
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/07/2008 02:44:05 PM
Nice wildlife action photo.
 12/05/2008 09:25:30 PM
I hope you were shooting in burst mode. I want to see what happened after this.
 12/05/2008 12:12:04 PM
Hope they both survive! Certainly a well-timed capture.
 12/05/2008 04:49:52 AM
Nice action capture, Great colors and great composition.
 12/05/2008 03:57:27 AM
Oooh, that sucks (the hook, not the photo). 7
 12/03/2008 06:38:08 PM
that cant be good
 12/03/2008 02:55:22 PM
Yikes! I hope they are just fighting over that and aren't actually hooked together! Great stopped motion with just a little movement in the wings to still give some motion to the shot
 12/02/2008 09:52:22 PM
well seen! How awful.
 12/02/2008 04:57:00 PM
Are they really stuck?? Eek. What a capture! (not voting yet)
 12/01/2008 05:07:54 PM
Wow! What a capture!! Amazing!
 12/01/2008 12:05:37 AM
wow...what happened there?! interesting capture
 11/30/2008 07:44:38 PM
oh dear, thats no fun at all
 11/30/2008 07:40:08 PM
Cool very yes.


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