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Seeing Eye to Eye?
vawendy


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Challenge: Free Study 2011-06 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: 2011 challenges
Camera: Canon EOS-7D
Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS
Date: Jun 24, 2011
Date Uploaded: Jun 24, 2011
[Jul. 7th, 2011 10:57:23 PM]

My son and I were taking the ferry from Jamestown to the Surry side of the James River. There was a great blue heron sitting on one of the pilings next to the ferry. As we watched, he swooped down, and caught a fish. Of course, I was zoomed in too close when he flew:



but I was able to get one shot when he was flying back.



The amazing thing was, once he landed with the fish, he didn't eat it right away!! He would hold it, toss it back a bit, then drop it on the piling, then pick it up, toss it back a bit, etc. He did it about 5 or 6 times, so I had lots of opportunities! What a fun shoot!



Thanks for all the great comments!


Statistics
Place: 11 out of 312
Avg (all users): 6.6462
Avg (commenters): 8.2500
Avg (participants): 6.6778
Avg (non-participants): 6.5750
Views since voting: 1337
Views during voting: 217
Votes: 130
Comments: 22
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 07/11/2011 11:27:57 AM
Bird 1, Fish 0

Well done!
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 07/10/2011 05:43:36 PM
hope you try that at 1x. it looks like one they might like. good shot.
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 07/08/2011 09:23:34 PM
completely awesome.
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 07/08/2011 07:05:00 AM
Oh, THAT is amazing!
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 07/08/2011 05:58:58 AM
Fabulous! But... I really hate being 11th. LOL!
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 07/08/2011 05:52:23 AM
So well done...you must have been very excited to see a GBH!! Superb job in timing for sure.
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 07/08/2011 05:45:55 AM
Wendy I gave this a 10, I can't believe it didn't make top 10!!!
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 07/07/2011 08:50:22 PM
I am in LOVE with this photo. Well done.
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 07/07/2011 08:33:34 PM
Not bad Wendy, this was always going to do well.
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 07/07/2011 08:04:00 PM
I did congratulate you prior to the challenge, didn't I?
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/07/2011 06:43:21 PM
ha!! very nice catch!!
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 07/07/2011 06:13:23 PM
remarkable catch
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 07/07/2011 10:56:01 AM
nice!
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 07/07/2011 07:20:46 AM
so dinosaur like in presentation. Dinosaurs never died out- they are flying above us all day.
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 07/06/2011 10:46:41 AM
This is really amazing.
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 07/03/2011 03:04:32 AM
Looks like the fish was expecting it.
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 07/02/2011 03:34:08 AM
Amazing! One of the more interesting nature shots I've seen in a while.
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 07/01/2011 12:39:28 PM
Really good. Looks like Nat Geo!! 8
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 07/01/2011 11:10:42 AM
not exactly... LOL
very eyecatching... (groan)
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 07/01/2011 06:10:41 AM
the eyes are overprocessed for the title's sake, but very good capture.
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 07/01/2011 04:57:55 AM
OMG!!! Just incredible!
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 06/30/2011 08:17:53 PM
Perfect diagonal, great capture.
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