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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: Mike G on January 17, 2020, 11:07:34

Title: Swan dunking!
Post by: Mike G on January 17, 2020, 11:07:34: This was taken in Lucerne, in 2015, close to the shore of the lake.
D810 + Nikkor 24-120mm @ 1/200 f8 ISO125.
Title: Re: Swan dunking!
Post by: Erik Lund on January 17, 2020, 11:54:23: :o ;D Nice one!
Title: Re: Swan dunking!
Post by: Hugh_3170 on January 17, 2020, 12:48:38: Indeed. A grazing swan.

Quote from: Erik Lund on January 17, 2020, 11:54:23
:o ;D Nice one!
Title: Re: Swan dunking!
Post by: Nikkor Shooter on January 17, 2020, 17:29:43: Quote from: Hugh_3170 on January 17, 2020, 12:48:38
A grazing swan.

Common to Swans and Ducks, among others, this is called dabbling.
This is a premature individual, Mike.

I caught this iceberg style of image last Autumn…

(http://www.kodiakmedia.at/2020/01/C9861%201D.jpg)
Title: Re: Swan dunking!
Post by: Mike G on January 17, 2020, 18:23:55: Damnit I couldn’t remember the term “dabbling”, hey ho!

Nice one NShooter.
Title: Re: Swan dunking!
Post by: Nikkor Shooter on January 17, 2020, 18:39:37: Quote from: Mike G on January 17, 2020, 18:23:55
Damnit I couldn’t remember the term “dabbling”, hey ho!Nice one NShooter.

It happens to most of us over 22! :P

There were five swans dabbling at the marsh that day. As I took a Gadwall
in the same position that looked like a science fiction cathedral (according
to my daughter!), I wondered if a Swan would look like an iceberg.

So I observed the fives dabblers for quite some time — keeping a close eye
on everything else, of course — and only two were in some decent light. I
kept them in sight until luck smiled to me!
Title: Re: Swan dunking!
Post by: Nikkor Shooter on January 17, 2020, 18:59:31: My daughter said: "I like the man… give it to him!"

So here is the Gadwall…

(http://www.kodiakmedia.at/2020/01/C6297%201D.jpg)
Title: Re: Swan dunking!
Post by: Hugh_3170 on January 18, 2020, 02:24:43: That makes two of us Mike, so I used the functional word. But dabbling it is!

Quote from: Mike G on January 17, 2020, 18:23:55
Damnit I couldn’t remember the term “dabbling”, hey ho!

Nice one NShooter.
Title: Re: Swan dunking!
Post by: Hugh_3170 on January 18, 2020, 02:26:44: Yes, nice one Nikkor Shooter. A touch of the Chrysler Buiilding in this one?
Title: Re: Swan dunking!
Post by: Nikkor Shooter on January 18, 2020, 02:31:47: Quote from: Hugh_3170 on January 18, 2020, 02:26:44
A touch of the Chrysler Buiilding in this one?
…donno… but my younger son suggests it must be
a version of Atlantis! Go figure. :P
Title: Re: Swan dunking!
Post by: Hugh_3170 on January 18, 2020, 03:07:11: Its funny what people see in images - which is nice. :)

Quote from: Nikkor Shooter on January 18, 2020, 02:31:47
…donno… but my younger son suggests it must be
a version of Atlantis! Go figure. :P
Title: Re: Swan dunking!
Post by: Nikkor Shooter on January 18, 2020, 12:02:44: Quote from: Hugh_3170 on January 18, 2020, 03:07:11
Its funny what people see in images - which is nice. :)

Well, if one puts aside the features that makes it recognisable as
a bird, both kids saw some kind of buildings and I saw a flower.
Title: Re: Swan dunking!
Post by: Mike G on January 19, 2020, 09:08:33: The Gadwall, I can imagine seeing as a flower!
Title: Re: Swan dunking!
Post by: Akira on January 19, 2020, 10:06:40: Quote from: Hugh_3170 on January 18, 2020, 02:24:43
That makes two of us Mike, so I used the functional word. But dabbling it is!

Looks like an artichoke to me. Nice capture!
Title: Re: Swan dunking!
Post by: Nikkor Shooter on January 20, 2020, 18:36:05: Quote from: Akira on January 19, 2020, 10:06:40
Looks like an artichoke to me. Nice capture!

Isn't a brown artichoke at tad over the eat safe date limit, Akira? :P
Title: Re: Swan dunking!
Post by: Akira on January 20, 2020, 22:14:25: Quote from: Nikkor Shooter on January 20, 2020, 18:36:05
Isn't a brown artichoke at tad over the eat safe date limit, Akira? :P

You are right. Better for appreciation than for digestion!
Title: Re: Swan dunking!
Post by: Nikkor Shooter on January 21, 2020, 18:37:10: … got this one today, double if you don't mind… a first!

(http://www.kodiakmedia.at/2020/01/D4977%205D.jpg)