Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Poor seal pup. (I know, I know, but someone should speak for the dead) On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>wrote: > Just awesome! > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > > YNWA > > > > On Jul 21, 2012, at 7:26 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > > > The absolute highlight of the whole trip to the pack ice around > > Spitsbergen was to see and photograph a Polar Bear raid a seal nursery > > chamber successfully. I captured most of the action, but the D800E has > > one big limitation for action - low FPS, and even more than that, > > limited buffer capacity (mainly due to the huge files), and that came > > and bit me in the butt big time. I had purchased this body full aware > > of this limitation, but (very unreasonably) it still irritates! I had > > no time to switch to the D700, which would have effortlessly taken the > > whole sequence. Anyway, here goes - it was a Female Polar Bear with > > two cubs: > > > > She stalked to figure out the exact location of the chamber: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1712.jpg.html > > > > She just looked at the cubs, and they froze: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1714.jpg.html > > > > She launched the first attack: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1717.jpg.html > > > > She continued trying to breach the chamber, but failed: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1719.jpg.html > > > > Then she tried to collapse the roof of the chamber: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1726.jpg.html > > > > The first attempt failed: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1727.jpg.html > > > > She launched a second attempt: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1728.jpg.html > > > > It succeeded: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1730.jpg.html > > > > She disappeared into the nursery: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1733.jpg.html > > > > She reappeared with the spoils, a Ringed Seal pup: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1736.jpg.html > > > > Then the most surprising thing happened, she just grabbed the carcass > > and fled! We were told later that she probably thought that the ship > > was a gigantic animal, hell bent on stealing her kill - after all, > > within the Polar Bear hierarchy, size is paramount. She fled for a few > > kilometres, and all three starting eating in a hurry. By the time we > > caught up with them, the meal was substantially over: > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1746_001.jpg.html > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1754.jpg.html > > > > Please see LARGE. > > > > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome > > > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>