Lost Aussie on the loose

Pelican Portrait and Profile

Fiddling tonight with some of the images that I shot in Florida earlier this year with a view to using one or two for Pixoto or some Nature comps and this particular fellow caught my eye amongst the slew of RAW files ...

... a Pelican that I shot sitting on the end of a dock down by the water at Fernandina off Amelia Island.  I managed to get within feet of this lovely creature, clearly being used to being gazed upon by the riff raff, hence the lack of camera shy ....

On the Tech side of things, I have finally finished my migration to Photoshop CC.  All filters, fixin's and go funky stuff migrated and installed and CS6 has been removed from the system.
It's a chore, chore, chore to reinstall all the extra Plug-Ins, but on the upside, most of them have been revamped to work with the current version of Photoshop and getting everything up-to-date is never a bad thing and I have noticed that my computer is happier to have only one version of Photoshop to talk to....

 

 

When Nature Does It (..and Photoshop does not)

Panos aren't the greatest of images to feature on the blog but there's not really any better way to show eight pelicans captured in full flight as they cross the oyster beds of the Intracoastal Waterways down in Florida.

Initially when I showed DH the picture he thought I had photoshopped the same Pelican flying at different moments ..... not so ....

Whilst out in the boat last week we came across a "flock"? of nesting Pelicans, 20 or so of them and at one point they decided to take flight and this is what my camera saw... or all that I could snap in one frame, at any rate...

Almost like an Eadweard Muybridge time lapse capture....

From the Intracoastal waterways we ventured offshore towards some of the coastal banks and shoals where there were many birds of different varieties all sitting together and enjoying the sunshine...

My guide seemed disappointed that the birds weren't "doing" anything ... but it seemed to me that since it was the breeding season they were all more focussed on communing and having a chat (prior to mating) rather than fishing or frolicking...

I was just happy being out in the sunshine, on the water and getting up close and personal to a bunch of feathered folk that I normall don't get to see...