A circle of pelicans - a photo on Flickriver

            It's funny how certain animals are to some of us run of the mill mundane, yet to others a fascinating discovery. We don't have pelicans in the UK, so it was great to watch this giant flock at Santa Cruz fishing for their breakfast. I suspect if you had to listen to them every day it might be less great, but that's the joy of being a traveller :)

I spent a while trying to work out how to use this picture, and in the end I had to be brutal and exclude the bird that was in a dive about to hit the ocean, but was too far away from the circle to make the composition work. I'm not too in love with the ground, but I feel the birds need some form of context for this to work also.

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Taken in: United States / California / Seabright (show map)

Taken on: November 20, 2015

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Santa Cruz

California

Pelican

Pelicans

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Pacific

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Sets appears in: • Birds • California Roadtrip 2015 more » • USA Travels « less

Groups appears in: • Birds , Birds Birds • California Photography more » • Santa Cruz Photography • Birds In Flight • Fujifilm Folks • Fuji-x.com • Fujifilm X-mount cameras • Fujifilm X-E1 / X-E2 / X-E2s • Fuji XF 55-200mm f3.5-4.8 R LM OIS • A Day on the Road « less

Camera: Fujifilm X-E2, f/4.7, 1/2000 sec, 181.1mm (=272mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Fujifilm X-E2
Lens:	XF55-200mmF3.5-4.8 R LM OIS
Aperture:	f/4.7
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/2000)
Focal Length:	181.1mm (35mm equivalent: 272mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 10.3 (Windows)
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