New userpic! NEW with extra dolphins

[fivemack]

I went out in a boat from Lavina in northern Bali at 0630 one day; of 85 photos of the jumping dolphins, this was the only one I actually caught out of the water.

The really astounding thing I saw that day, but wasn't able to photograph, was a flying fish; I had read descriptions of them that made their flight out as a kind of lengthened leap, but this one was moving fast, a foot or so above the water, and seemed to be flying pretty straight and level for twenty or thirty metres!

Comments

[aldabra]

Wow.

You ought to be able to sell that to somebody.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately it's a very severe crop of an image of lots of empty sea with a small jumping dolphin just above the horizon; if I'd managed to get a jumping dolphin filling the frame, that would probably be sellable for maybe as much as 1% of the cost of the ultra-telephoto lens required to take such a picture.

On the other hand, I've uploaded to this article some more dolphins which I did manage to get at four-megapixels.

[darcydodo]

Yeah, flying fish are awesome. If you come to California, you should go out to Catalina; at certain times of year, you get flying fish on the boat-ride there, too. And dolphins.