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Chris Calohan

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Tastes Just Like Chicken
« on: September 09, 2014, 01:15:00 am »

I was amazed watching this guy pluck one dragonfly after another off the ends of twigs. They are soooooooo quick and as seen by the photo, so deadly.
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Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2014, 03:53:12 am »

Nice capture, Chris. It's interesting to think that something so relatively big could be so quick.

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Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2014, 09:12:52 am »

Nice capture, Chris. It's interesting to think that something so relatively big could be so quick.

Jeremy
I agree.
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Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2014, 10:29:08 am »

Great fun! Faster than a fish - that's easy. Faster than a dragonfly - that's harder.
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Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2014, 01:32:50 pm »

I wonder if he's "faster than a speeding bullet."   :D
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Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2014, 01:41:19 pm »

I feel like this illustrates the same problem I always have photographing the egret.  The white feathers blow out and I lose detail in the highlights.  They reflect light so brilliantly you almost need to bring them into studio to get the feather detail, add a scrim, get the lighting down.  Damn birds never want to pose for portraits though... plus there probably aren't enough dragon flys there for them...
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Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2014, 01:22:17 am »

Two Comanches are sitting around a campfire roasting a chicken.  One says to the other, "Try it, you'll like it; it tastes just like rattlesnake".
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Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2014, 01:09:23 pm »

How about this version:

Two Snowy Egrets are sitting around a campfire roasting a chicken.  One says to the other, "Try it, you'll like it; it tastes just like dragonfly".    ;)
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Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2014, 01:27:56 pm »

And I thought my All Hail the Mouse submission was off the wall...
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Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2014, 05:23:22 pm »

And I thought my All Hail the Mouse submission was off the wall...

I thought Mickey looked just fine in that one.
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Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2014, 07:02:30 pm »

Me too. To get the background, I had to wait for a UPS truck to amble by. Cheap tricks are the best.
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