Flying Shamu
by boyd2000

Comment by wickee_one:
Great capture of the flying Shamu. You can tell the audience is anticipating the next splash.

Flying Shamu
by boyd2000

Comment by boyd2000:
Thanks for the comments everyone. I'll have to start commenting also. Now I recall from my previous June side-challenge that was the most time consuming part.

I did not get wet because we were well above the "Soak Zone" and over 100 feet from the whale in this shot. I have lots of other pictures. I had it in sports mode here, which allowed me to take 3 shots per second. In this sequence I have the whale coming out of the water, in the air, and re-entering the water. I'll try to upload more to my portfolio tonight.

muckpond I agree it should have been longer for the longer whale. In fact it almost looks like the picture was shrunk horizontally with the whale's position. I just did a very rough crop of a small portion of the picture (due to no telephoto lens) and wished later I had cropped out the standing person.

Flying Shamu
by boyd2000

Comment by Alicia:
Wow!!! Flying whale! Very cool shot. Did you get wet? :o)

White is Ready for Battle
by boyd2000

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
Sorry, I don't care for this. Grainy and not a lot of detail showing on the chess pieces.

Flying Shamu
by boyd2000

Comment by SandyP:
Oh, this is a GREAT shot of Shamu! I recently went to our Sea World and tried to get flying sea animals like this. You did GOOOOD!!!! Did you get any more????? I'd love to see them :)

Flying Shamu
by boyd2000

Comment by muckpond:
cool capture. i'm not sure about the square crop. this needs to be big and wide. :)

Flying Shamu
by boyd2000

Comment by KarenNfld:
Very cool shot, I bet that's a fun show to watch

Flying Shamu
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Comment by PHOTOKID:
Love the angle of the whales body, gives some interest to the overall photo. Nice stop action on the splash. Really cool!

Flying Shamu
by boyd2000

Comment by Jutilda:
I love to watch those guys. It's like their huge bodies are weightless for a few seconds when they fling out of the water. Nice stop action!

Flying Shamu
by boyd2000

Comment by joynim:
Great catch :) I like the shape of shamu's body it adds interest to the photo