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Once in a Lifetime captured on Film - 3/11/2009 3:10:07 PM
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Soleil Soul
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Here's a once-in-a-lifetime event captured on film...
The fellow sitting on the tailgate of his pickup truck never realized the show he was missing. (620 mm effective Focal Length)
The little duck watches as the Eagle speeds straight at him at about 40 mph.(760 mm effective Focal Length)
With perfect timing, the duck always dove and escaped with a mighty splash! Then he'd pop to the surface as soon as the Eagle flew past. This was repeated over and over for several minutes. I worried the poor duck would tire and that would be the end of him. (1,040 mm effective Focal Length)
A second Eagle joins the attack! The duck kept diving "just in time", so the Eagles began to dive into the water after him! (1,150 mm effective Focal Length)
After several minutes the Eagles got frustrated and began to attack each other. They soon began to dive vertically, level out, and attack head-on in a good old-fashioned game of high-speed "Chicken". Sometimes they banked away from each other at the last possible second. Other times they'd climb vertically and tear into each other while falling back toward the water. (The duck catches his breath at the right side of this picture.) (900 mm effective Focal Length)
A terrible miscalculation! The luckiest shot of my life catches this 100 mph head-on collision between two Bald Eagles.
(1,320 mm effective Focal Length)
One Eagle stayed aloft and flew away, but the other lies motionless in a crumpled heap. The lucky duck survived to live another day. (486 mm effective Focal Length)
It's sad to watch an Eagle drown. He wiggled, flapped and struggled mostly underwater. He finally got his head above water and with great difficulty managed to get airborne. To my astonishment, he flew straight toward me, and it was the most wretched and unstable bird flight I've ever seen! (620 mm effective Focal Length)
The bedraggled Eagle circled me once – then lit atop a nearby fir tree. He had a six-foot wingspread and looked mighty angry. I was concerned that I might be his next target, but he was so exhausted he just stared at me. Then I wondered if he would topple to the ground. As he tried to dry his feathers, it seemed to me that this beleaguered Eagle symbolized America in its current trials. (1,200 mm effective Focal Length)
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RE: Once in a Lifetime captured on Film - 3/11/2009 3:16:48 PM
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alexakumal
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Incredible luck, for you as a photographer, and for the eagle recovering from the near-drowning!
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RE: Once in a Lifetime captured on Film - 3/11/2009 3:31:00 PM
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minnjim
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Amazing!
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RE: Once in a Lifetime captured on Film - 3/11/2009 3:44:18 PM
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47froggy
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Those are Thrilling! Thanks for showing us!!
< Message edited by 47froggy -- 3/11/2009 4:45:52 PM >
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RE: Once in a Lifetime captured on Film - 3/11/2009 5:43:39 PM
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xcalaksteve
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Incredible pictures! So much depends on being at the right time in the right place. Great pics!
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RE: Once in a Lifetime captured on Film - 3/11/2009 6:27:23 PM
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kallileigh
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greaat pics and an awesome narrative to go with....
That's exactly what I was going to say! The pictures are great but the story makes them better... especially the last part about symbolizing our current trials. Nice work Soleil Soul!
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RE: Once in a Lifetime captured on Film - 3/11/2009 6:43:33 PM
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Wow! Incredible pics...once in a lifetime is correct.
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RE: Once in a Lifetime captured on Film - 3/11/2009 7:03:08 PM
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Amazing--
Really amazing -- thanks for sharing !
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RE: Once in a Lifetime captured on Film - 3/11/2009 8:15:41 PM
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snowbound
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Absolutely Awesome!!!
We have a lot of bald eagles here in Utah, but I've never seen them "jousting"!!!
Great pics...
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RE: Once in a Lifetime captured on Film - 3/11/2009 9:21:53 PM
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cindyd
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My Dad that sent to me yesterday, and I thought the photographer was describing some fairly typical courtship flight behavior after the pair gave up on the coot (looked like one anyway.) But the outcome suggests it was more of a territorial dispute than courtship gone wrong...
Here's the link I was e-mailed, it has bigger pics if any are interested and want to share them:
http://www.realitytvlounge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20080
Now that I think about it, the world is all green in the pics, so it must have been photographed last summer...
< Message edited by cindyd -- 3/11/2009 10:24:53 PM >
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