Blue-footed Booby pierces the ocean surface in the Galapagos

Posted by Peter G on Thu Apr 28, 2016 8:13 pm

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[font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]This is a Blue-footed Booby with its bill barely piercing the surface of the sea. They circle above the ocean, stop on a dime and then hurtle beak first toward the ocean turning themselves into an avian torpedo. When their prey is in sight, these seabirds utilize the physical adaptations that make them exceptional divers. They fold their long wings back around their streamlined bodies and plunge into the water from as high as 80 feet. Amazing birds [/font]
[font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]1D X, 70-200 at 185mm, f/3.5 1/3200, 100 ISO[/font]

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by clement on Fri Apr 29, 2016 12:20 am

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WOW you have captured a bullet here..

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by Haim Ziv on Fri Apr 29, 2016 12:26 am

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WOW!!!

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by Neilyb on Fri Apr 29, 2016 3:12 am

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Perfect moment captured and not at all easy.

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by Gaurav Mittal on Fri Apr 29, 2016 4:19 am

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Excellent timing on freezing this moment. Not an easy shot to get.

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by Gene Gwin on Fri Apr 29, 2016 5:04 am

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Peter, Now that's quite a shot!!!

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by Denis55 on Fri Apr 29, 2016 8:32 am

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Excellent capture!

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by David Salem on Fri Apr 29, 2016 10:15 am

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I have always loved shooting diving birds and have always wanted to be out to sea with my rig while watching Gannets and Boobies diving.
This thing looks like a missile about to hit the water. Perfect moment captured and I like the fact that we can see the blue feet and I like the water colors.
Well done

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by troylim on Fri Apr 29, 2016 6:19 pm

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Love this shot!

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by RichardMittleman/Gon2Foto on Fri Apr 29, 2016 7:02 pm

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Nailed it

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by Ivan Sjögren on Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:54 am

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Great action shot!

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by Lensmaster on Sat Apr 30, 2016 5:43 am

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very nice indeed.

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by LHays on Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:28 pm

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That's an awesome shot.......perfect timing.

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by DYWPhoto on Mon May 02, 2016 6:02 pm

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Fantastic timing!

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by Cynthia Crawford on Mon May 02, 2016 8:27 pm

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Wow!! Love it- so unique and such a great story too.

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by Scott A. Flaherty on Tue May 10, 2016 1:18 pm

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Nice job. I was trying to do that down there last week and was unsuccessful. The frame rate of my D800 wasn't up to the task. I did get some Pelicans breaking the surface like this. The Blue-footed Boobies seem to hit the water at a high velocity though.

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by pleverington on Tue May 10, 2016 9:10 pm

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The trouble with this image is it looks like something frozen in time out of the ice world or something. If someone did not tell me what I was looking at then I would not have a clue. I think it fails except for a timely capture I guess...As far as a nature image I think it looks absolutely ridiculous...it fails miserably even though it actually caught a moment at 1/3200 of a second... which the eye can't. So maybe like those images of bullets going through an apple it has value?

Viscerally it does nothing for me yet it made editors pick. I must be screwy I guess....I do like the tonal transitions in the water despite the cooked saturation...

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