Pelican Above Water. California coast. May 15, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
A solo pelican coasts above the surface of the Pacific Ocean near the central California coast.
There is not too much to say about this one – since I posted a companion pelican photograph yesterday! This one is also “from the archives” – a photograph from last May that I found as I looked through last year’s raw files one last time.
(For those who are reading this in the archives, a bit more information. I frequently photograph pelicans along the California Pacific Ocean shoreline. This photograph was made from a location where I can access the top of a coastal bluff that drops almost immediately straight down to the water. The pelicans seem to make a habit of cruising up and down the tops of these bluffs on the updrafts that are created by the onshore breeze, and they fly very close to the bluff edges where I can photograph them close up.)
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Mike, sounds like fun. I often do so on the spur of the moment on an afternoon when I find I can get away.
Dan
Nice shot, Dan. We should photograph pelicans, together, some time.