It’s officially winter, and cooler, so less ocean wildlife photography.
They are still there, I’m just not a fan of the cold. At least in the swamps trees break up the wind.
The shore Pelicans have not received much web site space lately.
A small series of in flight shots to give them equal billing.
Brown Pelican, Charleston Harbor.
This is a lemonade from lemons shot. I clipped the wing tip feathers since he was too close. Usually a sure delete.
While doing some landscapes in a new film look I was testing I grabbed this too.
Interesting, and Kodachrome 100 for sure.
I noticed in this series the bird has something in his bill. You can see a shape, and maybe something protruding from his bill.
Pelicans aren’t fussy eaters so it could be anything.
Another example of finding surprises in a photograph you were not aware of before.
That’s what they remind me of…
Very cleaver Pelican. While all the others are out circling the shrimp boat looking for scraps, he goes to the back door.
This is where the trucks come to get their loads of shrimp.
Land and wait.
I don’t know how successful he was, but he had no competition.
Charleston.
Every shrimper on the docks have Pelicans sitting on board somewhere.
These two have nothing better to do than watch the humans wander below.
BTW, look at those feet !!!!!
And yes, the shrimpers really are very colorful.
I know some equipment is a specific color for a reason, like the green nets. Others, the plastic bins, they may have been on sale.
This image is also a good example of why I went back to looking through film and equivalent digital filters. Kodachrome 64, above, was the standard 35 mm for years and the only Kodak film created specifically for the consumer market. The colors are vibrant.
I’m guessing this is not a bad spot for a Pelican.
Or maybe all the spots in the ships rigging were taken.
