Came across this amazing collection of photographs. Some of the images are truly stunning and extremely interesting. Of course, some of the images had been touched up by some excellent Photoshop skills.
Having an idea of how difficult it is to take pictures like these makes me appreciate the brilliant efforts put in by the photographers. Absolutely fabulous!
July 28th, 2007 at 12:00 am
I love the small girl photo and the shore shot a lot.
July 28th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
I admire most of them. The shot of the bird of prey is amazing, because it had to be captured at the right moment, zoomed in, and the camera needed to have a very fast shutter speed. And since I am on the topic, I had no idea how to differentiate between a hawk and a falcon.
A quick check reveals this, “One difference, which is a key distinguishing factor, is that falcons have a notch on their bills that they use to dispatch prey, whereas ‘hawks’ do not. Falcons belong to the family of long-winged hunters, quite a few of which kill birds in flight, whereas hawks tend to take their prey on the ground and are predominantly short-winged for woodland hunting, although there is some overlap in hunting methods between the two types. The name ‘hawk’ comes from the days of falconry (‘hafoc’ or ‘havoc’) and predominantly referred to the Goshawk (German ‘Habicht’), which was the favourite hawk of the country class. They were originally used to obtain food (rabbit etc.) Falcons were classed as more ‘aristocratic’ species.”
Personally I like taking candid shots of people. Not the posed ones but shots of people doing their own thing.