Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jayanand, Were you shooting to the sd or the cf? Leo Wesson Photographer | Videographer www.leowesson.com 817.733.9157 On Jul 21, 2012, at 12:26 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 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