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14 perfectly timed animal photos.

And because I've been watching a video lecture on photography by the guy who shot this fantastic perfectly-timed photo of a bear catching a salmon, I know that each and every one of those photos is probably the result of many, many hours sitting and shooting photos of the animals in question. (Joel Sartore, the photographer I linked to, says, IIRC, that he estimates he took about a thousand photos the day he got that one.)

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[yhlee]

I have a book of that man's photos, with that photo on the cover, which I bought cheap. He used to have a gallery (or something) in Palo Alto when I was going to Stanford, except they were closing up and (I think?) moving somewhere else, and selling off everything in the store. I asked if the display copy of the book, which was well-thumbed-through, was on sale, and the saleslady went to check and said sure, I could have it at Significant Discount. I still page through it sometimes when I want to be awed.

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

Nice! The second one does make me want to raise my hands and say, "Yay, kitty!".