Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks all for your interest. And thanks Doug for the photo to illustrate the explanations give. In my case, I'm not sure they really intended to take off - they simply "ricocheted" /bounced for about 300 yards then gave up and stayed there. It may have been for them a way to get there faster and I didn't notice they were actually paddling, I mean the feet didn't "run". They simply bounced. I've just uploaded the other two shots I took ( cropped for curious minds to see the legs). You'll see that the feet don't seem to run. Rather, it's like skiing, or hydrofoils. The intial picture is number two of three. The first shot is labelled nb 3, and the last one number 1, could be confusing, the were actually flgiding from right to left and not in the reverse ;-) . <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Oiseaux/Ricochets+_1+sur+1_-3.jpg.html> Steve - camera speed was 1/640. Thanks all for your interest and lights. Philippe Ric Carter wrote: > Actually, they're more like footprints. Swans (and many other water > fowl) run across the water very fast to take off. You are seeing the > footprints at different stages of splash - sort of a realtime version > of time lapse photography. > > ric > > > On Oct 22, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Steve Barbour wrote: > >> I see the bird frozen in space but the water kicked up from each >> wingbeat...was there some trickery or mutiple images involved? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >