{"id":1696,"date":"2011-01-18T21:42:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T12:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-01-18\/1696"},"modified":"2011-01-18T21:42:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T12:42:24","slug":"the-great-kamo-river-battle-for-the-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-01-18\/1696","title":{"rendered":"The Great Kamo River Battle for the Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Yesterday I posted about a bird<\/span> feeding frenzy<\/a> at\nthe Kamo river in Kyoto, brought about by a couple<\/span> with a big<\/span> box of bread.\nToday's post is a sequence<\/span> of nine shots of one event, spanning 11½\nseconds....<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>2500 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nHeading for the Bread Zone<\/span>\nT minus 1.39 Seconds\n(man is off camera right throwing big hunks of bread)\n<\/div>\n\n

The kite (hawk-like bird of prey mentioned yesterday) looks as if it\ntried to grab something from the water, but came up empty handed. But just after<\/span> this shot, a hunk<\/span> of bread landed in front of the gulls...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>2500 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nGull Scores a Bread<\/span><\/span>\ntime zero\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>2500 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nEasy Come, Easy Go<\/span>\nT +0.56 seconds\nKite has taken bread from gull\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>2500 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nIs There No Honor Among Thieves?<\/span>\nT +1.6 seconds\n( check out those drumsticks on the challenging kite! )\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>3200 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nClean Getaway<\/span>\nT +3.0 seconds\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 cropped — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>5000 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nNya-Nya, I've Got The Bread...<\/span>\nT +4.6 seconds\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 cropped — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>8000 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nCoordinated Attack!<\/span>\nT +8.7 seconds\na big nasty crow also covets the bread\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 cropped — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>6400 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nOn Your Tail<\/span>\nT +9.8 seconds\n<\/div>\n\n

I'll take the opportunity to point out again as I did<\/span> yesterday that\nthis was all manual-focus work. I'm really<\/span> happy with the focus I\nmaintained<\/span> during this fast-action sequence.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 cropped — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>6400 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nT +10.2 seconds\n<\/div>\n\n

The kite eventually went into some trees, and the crow and another kite\nhounded him for a bit<\/span> before losing interest. What's sort of funny about\nthis is that I don't<\/span> think the kites were really all that interested in the\nbread, once they found out what it was. Often I'd see them drop large\nchunks, perhaps after realizing that it's not the small rodent they thought\nit might have been. There were dozens of them riding flying in circles (I\nthink<\/span> “riding the thermals” is the proper phrase) and so perhaps each had\nto get a taste<\/span> for themselves in order to lose interest.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I posted about a bird feeding frenzy at the Kamo river in Kyoto, brought about by a couple with a big box of bread. Today's post is a sequence of nine shots of one event, spanning 11½ seconds....<\/p>

The kite (hawk-like bird of prey mentioned yesterday) looks as if it tried to grab something from the water, but came up empty handed. But just after this shot, a hunk of bread landed in front of the gulls...<\/p>

I'll take the opportunity to point out again as I did yesterday that this was all manual-focus work. I'm really happy with [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}