August 2002 - Friends in August
Lift-Off
Photograph by Ralph G. Speer
2nd place in Action
The appropriate name for our Second Prize winner in the Action category is "Lift-off." Every photographer needs a combination of skill and luck to capture a dramatic moment, and here the camera shutter opened at precisely the moment when the wings were flapping in the air and the bird's feet were lifting off the water. What is equally amazing about this photograph is the way the white reflection of the bird creates a pattern of its own on the rippling water below. It almost seems as if the photographer created this design to dramatize the action. ‹ back to August 2002
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