I spent last night trying to do the math to explain the relative positions of me and the shot of the osprey in the tree-top. I was sitting on the second-level deck at the lake cabin when I realized that if I spent the time looking through my posts I would find a photo which is worth a hundred words. (http://julia-here.livejournal.com/95710.html)
I was sitting on that higher deck for the first two photos; the osprey floated over and was at about 25M above me when I took the first shot; it then turned and landed in the tree right in front of the dock.
The second set shows it coming in from the cliff about .5KM away and then diving about 75M up and 50M from the further end of the dock; the fish won, as the osprey interrupted its dive and wheeled off back over the cliff behind us.
Julia, it's a fairy tale place, but like all the best stories, there's reminders of danger and fleeting time; the back yard has two sharp-edged boulders twice the height of a man balanced precariously over the future.
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Date: 2010-08-03 05:30 pm (UTC)I was sitting on that higher deck for the first two photos; the osprey floated over and was at about 25M above me when I took the first shot; it then turned and landed in the tree right in front of the dock.
The second set shows it coming in from the cliff about .5KM away and then diving about 75M up and 50M from the further end of the dock; the fish won, as the osprey interrupted its dive and wheeled off back over the cliff behind us.
Julia, it's a fairy tale place, but like all the best stories, there's reminders of danger and fleeting time; the back yard has two sharp-edged boulders twice the height of a man balanced precariously over the future.
ETA edit for open tag, sorry