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Many bird species can capture a fish from water. This photo shows a different technique -- a Red-Footed Booby catching a flying fish in midair. The photo was taken from a ship in the Indian Ocean between Aldabra Atoll and Alphonse Island, Seychelles. A Nikon D300 and a Nikkor 70-300 mm VR lens at 210 mm were used. The exposure was f/11 and 1/1250 sec (ISO 800). The birds in the flock were too far away to yield a good frame-filling photo, but when I made an extreme enlargement of one of my shots (after returning home), I found this scene. The enlarged image was cleaned with the help of Topaz DeNoise.
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Booby Catching a Flying Fish
Photographer: Irwin H. Segel
ihsegel | Mar 14, 2017
Views: 81
Dimensions: 1680x1405
Size: 1764kb
Filed Under: Picture This: Wildlife & Nature Photography
