{"id":25430,"date":"2012-05-03T06:30:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T13:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/?p=25430"},"modified":"2012-05-02T19:28:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T02:28:48","slug":"thats-just-gotta-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/thats-just-gotta-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"That’s Just Gotta Hurt!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are times no matter who you are or how good you are, you simply cannot replace a motordrive on astroblast!We were at the rookery when a Great Egret came into feed the kids. Well as you might guess, all hell broke loose as the two kids fought over the resource. In case you didn’t know, the kids have to simulate the parent to cough up a meal. They do this by grabbing the parent’s bill and pump the head\/neck back and forth over and over again. This whole time, those pointie bills are flying around like diggers! I watch through the lens holding my breath part of the time, the chaos is fierce. There is no physical way even with the D4 you can see the action, tell your finger to fire and the camera fire to capture the action. So it’s real simple for me, hit the hammer, let the D4’s 10fps loose, enjoy the sound of that mirror slapping away and shoot! Then in the post I look at the action frame by frame to decide which images tells the story of the mayhem the best. Once, long ago at Venice Rookery I saw the same behavior and at the end, there was a little blood below the eye of the parent. I didn’t see it this time but you just gotta think that hurts!<\/p>\n