David Element
Wildlife
Photography and Digital Video Images
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Mammals
37 – Bottlenose Dolphins
BOTTLENOSE
DOLPHIN Tursiops truncatus
BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN Tursiops truncatus
BOTTLENOSE
DOLPHIN Tursiops truncatus
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These certainly aren’t the best photographs of 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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