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Western Grebe. This is the most amazing underwater swimming bird that I have ever seen. I have observed cormorants for many years, and was always impressed by how far they could swim under water. From my observations, they can not swim at all compared to a Western Grebe. The first time that I watched a Western Grebe dive, I waited for what seemed like an eternity waiting for it to surface. When I finally spotted it, it was so far away from where it dived, it seemed impossible that it could swim that far underwater. I took this photo of a Western Grebe at Silverbell lake in west Tucson Arizona USA.
Late afternoon collection of convection clouds over Hamilton Lake (Lake Rotoroa). Apparently they used to swim in this lake, before the ducks arrived. Perhaps under the proposed new water standards we could do it again. I don't think so!
After sunset, the Domestic Swan geese at Newhall Park swim from the periphery of the main pond to an island where they are safer from predators.
Newhall Community Park, Concord, California
It was a wild February day on the Dorset coast with stormy skies and huge waves, and they did dither for a bit, but then into the water they went.
Posting just to upload something. I'm really frustrated at myself for how horrible all the photos I've been taking are. Hopefully I'll make something good soon.
This is from the summer, and the post-processing was really frustrating and there are still things that i don't like. I like it because the water looks good but i don't like the colors very much. My face looks weird too. Oh well.
Swimmer at Sunset.
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kefalonia greece,boat about to pull over let those who want swim to the beach,parts of the island very green.little mrytos beach.
I thought I would post my last of this series....almost forgot I had it !!
Have a great weekend everyone!!
:~)
Summer has just begun.
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So Kate, who is a local Bronte lass, was turning 60 in December and approached me to do a series of shots of her. She is a tri-athlete, super super fit (time for me to stress that I am most definitely not ;)) and a big swimmer. Kate was also off in early January to volunteer with Medecins Sans Frontiere, as she is a specialist in Infectious Diseases, for a year .....in Sudan!.
So I thought we had to do some in the ocean and she wholeheartedly agreed. We had a short time capsule before she left and with underwater shots with people around here you got to be sort of prepared. The tide has to be right, the light has to be right, the water temperature has to be right so swimmer/photographer can take lots of shots and be comfortable, water clarity has to be right with no rain for days before etc etc.
We had a 2 hour window before she flew out one morning and she arrived down to Clovelly Beach, as triathletes often do, on her bicycle. It had been raining for a few days prior - the water was murky, there was a north easterly...the water was the coldest in summer in years...totally freezing. It was too early in the morning, lightwise for underwater, and the tide was too high.
I had a crazy sort of frozen smile on my face saying 'don't worry Kate, we will be fine', inside I am thinking this is a disaster. We went in and the shots were not great...not great at all. A few moments later she said 'Rosie, I cannot do this - its too cold'. I wrapped her in my big blanket towel and said we have to try one more time in there. Kate then started to do some advanced yoga movements to warm up...needless to say I did(nor could not) join her and proceeded to share with her, while she downward dogged, my secret to staying warm which is eating lots and lots of butter.
In we go a few minutes later and for a few rare moments the sun shone through the murky waters and I got 'the shot' and gave her the thumbs up. I reckon because she was off to do such saintly work the gods shone on us for those few minutes to allow her to have an image of herself in cold cold water whilst she is camped out in the hot hot desert of Sudan.
My cameras are amazing not just for the coolness of taking images but also they have have brought me in to contact with such amazing inspiring people like Kate.
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The library hosted a swim party for all kids 6-18 who had read over 30 books in the Texas Reading Club. There was fun in the Friendswood pool, plus grilled hot dogs by the Boy Scouts and popsicles for everyone!
The library hosted a swim party for all kids 6-18 who had read over 30 books in the Texas Reading Club. There was fun in the Friendswood pool, plus grilled hot dogs by the Boy Scouts and popsicles for everyone!
The library hosted a swim party for all kids 6-18 who had read over 30 books in the Texas Reading Club. There was fun in the Friendswood pool, plus grilled hot dogs by the Boy Scouts and popsicles for everyone!
The library hosted a swim party for all kids 6-18 who had read over 30 books in the Texas Reading Club. There was fun in the Friendswood pool, plus grilled hot dogs by the Boy Scouts and popsicles for everyone!
The library hosted a swim party for all kids 6-18 who had read over 30 books in the Texas Reading Club. There was fun in the Friendswood pool, plus grilled hot dogs by the Boy Scouts and popsicles for everyone!