[Leica] IMG: Spin dry :)

[Peter Klein]

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@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
>
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