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Some swallows - like this Barn Swallow - occasionally plunge into the water for a brief instant. I've also observed this behavior from Cliff swallows and Violet-green swallows at this same pond.
I haven't been able to determine what purpose motivates this behavior. It's possible the swallows are bathing. I've noticed that this activity occurs in flurries, but with no discernible rhyme or reason to it. Perhaps the birds are cooling off, or showing off.
When they drink, swallows fly very low to the water, open their gaping mouths, and let the lower beak skim along the water's surface, a patterned behavior quite distinct from what we see pictured here, where the birds seem to bounce off the water's surface. I've also observed (barn) swallows occasionally snatching a water-strider from the pond's surface, but again, the "signature" of that activity is quite distinct from this.
Maybe the swallow just enjoys seeing its own splash, and after thinking about this for awhile, I believe this is simply how swallows bathe.
splash strobe info:
camera right: sb-24 with snoot attachment @ 1/4
camera left: sb-28 thru a softbox @ 1/4
fish strobe info:
camera right: sb-24 shoot thru umbrella @ 1/4
camera left: sb-28 thru 50cm softbox @ 1/4
Splash
Pool
Aloft Leawood
11620 Ash Street
Leawood, Kansas (KS), 66211
United States
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Dogs having a blast during low tide today in SF Bay. Shooting conditions however were not so ideal.
30/365, 01-30-11
Since we are on the topic of "splashes" and golden sun rays - here's another La Jolla "spalsh".
Be sure to check out the previous post to get an idea of how quickly the clouds moved in over the horizon. Both photos were taken on the same day - spaced about 15 minutes apart.
Please view this photo and let me know which one looks better.
This is not my best but its one of those pictures from the Costa Rica set where there wasn't much else to do with it. At least not at 1 AM. So enjoy this.
Expo Zaragoza 2008.
Splash es una escultura de 21 m de altura diseñada por Program Collective y desarrollada mediante fluidos y dinámicas por Pere Gifre para la Exposición Internacional de Zaragoza de 2008; a partir del concepto de diseñadores Program Collective formado por: Mona Kim, Todd Palmer, Olga Subirós y Simon Taylor, para la exposición diseñada por Program Collective “Agua para la vida” en el Edificio Torre del Agua.
La escultura estaba formada por 135 piezas de acero y aluminio distintas que se sujetaban mediante cables de acero a la parte superior del edificio Torre del Agua. Estas piezas fueron diseñadas íntegramente por ordenador por Pere Gifre representado una gota de agua impactando en una superficie.