I cheated on this week’s challenge to capture motion. I went to the beach last weekend with high hopes of getting some good photography in — gotta get my 10,000 hours in this fledgling hobby of mine! Unfortunately, the weather didn’t cooperate. I got a few good stills that I liked and included here, but overall it was overcast and stormy most of the time. I tried to get some birds in flight not doing the usual — flying. I got one eating a little fish that a fisherman threw to him. He had to wait for the tail to quit flailing before he swallowed it, and a gull that landed, its wings still stretched out.
One of the things that delights me about this beach happens twice a day. Pods of porpoises swim west in the early morning, and return in the later afternoon and swim east. We’re on a peninsula and I think they must be going to the bay west of us to feed.
I’ve never been able to get good pictures. This time, with a better camera in hand, I was caught unaware and missed one of them jumping out of the water like Flipper. I switched to video hoping to catch it again, but all I got was two pods swimming along. That’s plenty of motion for the morning.
Here’s a bonus:
I’d love to see the porpoises!
janet
Beautiful creatures. I’ve been able to kayak close to them and it is always such a joy to see them.
i would love to do that!
I enjoyed how you incorporated the pictures and videos in the bulletin board setting Maria. Always nice to see something different. And, those land locked Nebraska resident enjoyed hearing the ocean this morning!
That should have been THIS land-locked Nebraska resident! 🙂
Lol! I got it :). Thanks for the kind words.
Oh good word…pods of porpoises?! I got tourists. Tourists and teens. Trade?
I love the video.
Thanks. A little rocky…but you get the idea.