alles im auge
flying home
Posted by daniela scharnowski (Berlin, Germany) on 6 November 2009 in Animal & Insect and Portfolio.
" The Common Crane (Grus grus), also known as the Eurasian Crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes.
It is a large, stately bird and a medium-sized crane at 100-130 cm (40-52 in) long, with a 180-240 cm (71-96 in) wingspan and a weight of 4.5-6 kg (10-13.2 lbs).
It breeds in wetlands in northern parts of Europe and Asia. The global population is in the region of 210,000-250,000, with the vast majority nesting in Russia and Scandinavia.
It is a long distance migrant wintering in Africa, southern Europe, and southern Asia. Migrating flocks fly in a V formation.
The Common Crane is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies." wikipedia
This is a crop of one of endless pictures I took when the cranes flew over our heads - not easy ;)
FZ28
1/40sec - f4.4 - Iso400 - 86.2mm - pp: cropping, heavy denoising, contrast etc
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@john4jack: I had no idea about the difficulties of capturing a swarm of birds like this... They fly so high, very fast! and the groups of them fly so close together - I´m very happy I got this =)
@Lyl and Roll: ;)
@Dimitrios: Thank you very much Dimitrios!
@kaveh Sadeghi-Azad: I wasn´t sure if the crop turn out good - maybe I`ll try this with some other capturings too =) Thank you dear Kaveh!
k@ from Paris, France
Super cool movement and direction, I follow them ! (... as soon as I finished to wear my wings)
6 Nov 2009 8:26am
@k@: Seeing this group / and their 2000 buddies flying in in spirales, I really wanted to take off too...
Thea from Leeuwarden, Netherlands
It looks beautiful..as if they "cut" the air in front of them..elegant :)
6 Nov 2009 12:40pm
Curly from South Shields, United Kingdom
Nice shot Daniela, difficult conditions.
6 Nov 2009 12:52pm
John from Geneva, United States
I like the sense of motion here being the up and down of the wings, as opposed to the flight of the birds. Different is cool.
There's a movie called Fly Away Home about a guy and his daughter who used an ultra-light plane to help birds fly south. Based on a true story: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116329/
6 Nov 2009 1:54pm
@John: I remeber that movie - do you know "Winged Migration" ? Phantastic photography!
@photolife: =)
@Marilla: Thank you honestly marilla!
Kiwisa from North Shore, New Zealand
Very beautiful - there is almost an abstract quality to the shapes. Well done on capturing this.
6 Nov 2009 7:12pm
@Kiwisa: To me it comes more like a painting, but that´s the denoising ;)
Christel from Köln, Germany
Guten Abend Daniela,
eine tolle Leistung, die Kranische im Flug zu erwischen. Diese Aufnahme gefällt mir sehr gut.
Liebe Grüße Christel
6 Nov 2009 9:37pm
@Christel: Dankeschön - das war ein sagenhaftes Erlebnis! Und ich bin wirklich stolz daß mir unter den Bedingungen doch ein, zwei gute Bilder gelungen sind! Viele Grüße aus Berlin ;)
@Pawn: Dankje well Pawn =) And thanks for stopping by!
