Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wonderful, Doug! Otters are among my favorite animals. I have a great story involving an otter. It happened in Israel a few years ago, at the place where Jesus is believed to have been baptized in the Jordan River. It's a heavily commercial site with crowd-control stalls along the riverbank for individual and group baptisms. Two Russian ladies, one rather rotund, were lingering in the river after their baptism, their robes billowing in the water. On the opposite bank, a Eurasian Otter was frolicking in the river, a comical flash of greased lightning. The juxtaposition of these serious acts of faith and the playful otter struck me as hysterically funny. I have a decent picture of the ladies, and an unusable frame with the otter, but I had neither enough access nor any trust-building time to get a usable photo of both. :-) https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/5223003592/ http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/temp/L1007051.jpg.html --Peter On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:48 PM, <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote: > Cool shot Doug. Envy your opertunity. Temps here are now great for Bald > Eagle shooting (15 and below, with current temps being -9), so I should be > going out to get some new images from now until late Feb. > > Gene > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> > To: lug at leica-users.org > Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 5:37:15 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central > Subject: [Leica] IMG: Spin dry :) > > I'm not sure why this otter bothered because it went right back in the > water - but it's 'spin-dry' cycle was quite amusing: > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/mammals/mustelidae/nrotte16.html > > What you can't see in the web-sized image (sorry, I don't post full-sized > photos anywhere) is the refracted colors in the water drops. Here's a > sample: > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/mammals/mustelidae/nrotte16crop.jpg > > Technical details as usual, all comments welcome. > > Doug Herr > Orangevale, Sacramento County > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > http://doug-herr.fineartamerica.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >