Black-faced Cormorant with Big-belly seahorse
Watched the cormorant surface with the live seahorse and come ashore and then after several attempts finally swallow it. One of 40 images
...
Read more
Watched the cormorant surface with the live seahorse and come ashore and then after several attempts finally swallow it. One of 40 images
Read less
Read less
Jan, 2016Views
340
Likes
Awards
Lucky 3 Award
Superb Composition
Top Choice
Absolute Masterpiece
Outstanding Creativity
Peer Award
Magnificent Capture
Love it
Top Ranks
Top 30 rank week 1
Top 10 rankTop 10 rank week 1
Top 20 rank
Top 30 rank
Categories
Coveboy53
August 27, 2016
Great shot, even to get this close to the cormorant let alone a seahorse dinner. The fat ones are the males who are full of babies. He plays mun till theyre released.
Same photographer See allBehind The Lens
Discover more photos See all
Behind The Lens
Location
The photo was taken at the Wharf in Hobart Tasmania, AustraliaTime
This must be my favourite wild life image. I was at the wharf to photograph a sea plane taking off when the blackface cormorant, holding on to a big bellied seahorse surface at my feet. I started shooting as it smashed the seahorse against the water and fought to get it back after it wrapped its tail around seaweed. The cormorant jumped onto the rock and spent several minutes trying to swallow the seahorse that seems to get caught in its throat. After spitting it out and trying several times the seahorse finally went down,Lighting
It was 9.30 daylight saving in February. A clear blue sky, calm sea and side light.Equipment
I was using an Olympus E5 with the 50-200mm lens. The cropped sensor makes it 400mm speed 1/800 and f3.5Inspiration
It's rare to see cormorant with a sea horseEditing
The only processing was adjusting the exposure and a little sharpeningIn my camera bag
Sadly Olympus stopped making DSLR so now I shoot with a Nikon D750 and for wildlife use the Sigma 150-600mm lens. I have tripod but rarely used for wildlife, a speed light used sometimesFeedback
Capturing sea birds with prey requires you to spend a lot of time waiting by the shore until you see what you want.
