David Element
Wildlife
Photography and Digital Video Images
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Mammals
37 – Common Bottlenose Dolphins
COMMON
BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN Tursiops truncatus
COMMON BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN Tursiops truncatus
COMMON
BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN Tursiops truncatus
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These
certainly aren’t the best photographs of Common Bottlenose
Dolphins Tursiops truncatus that you will see but to be fair to the
photographer they were taken in very trying conditions, namely through a small
window from the lower deck of a small, rocking boat during a return trip from
Lunga off the west coast of Scotland. There was already somebody sitting in the
seat adjacent to the window and as a manual 400mm lens was being used the
cetaceans needed to emerge in exactly the right place as the field of view was
so narrow. Manual focussing needed to be instantaneous otherwise the opportunity
to take any photographs would have been lost. There wasn’t much time available
either. It was therefore remarkable that on a couple of occasions one of the
dolphins emerged in exactly the right place! The first photograph has been
cropped as the subject was off centre and the second emergence was far too
close for a complete focussing adjustment to be made. One day it is hoped that
a better opportunity will arise and that it might be possible to take some
photographs from the upper deck of a boat surrounded by dolphins and with their
heads showing!
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