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Sea Monsters are real.
Photographed this yesterday in my kayak...... post a sea monster coin if you have one ......
Photographed this yesterday in my kayak...... post a sea monster coin if you have one ......
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1860 George H. Lovett "Cupid & Sea Serpent" / Ezra Hill "Coin Dealer" - Mule, 29mm Diameter, Brass, New York, Merchant Store Advertising Card, Miller-NY-322
The obverse is from a 32mm diameter of George Lovett's personal store card advertising token featuring a pictorial of cupid riding a sea serpent. On Lovett's later striking the edge of the die had chipped off creating the huge rim cud on the right side of the obverse. The die was then spun down on a lathe by Lovett to 29mm diameter losing the fancy border and used as a obverse variety of coin dealer Ezra Hill's store cards. Rarely seen however when encountered found more often struck in white metal, then copper or brass. Also far scarcer then any of the smoking of the weed smoker obverse designs.
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Ya he was close, not close enough as I kept going towards him on my kayak.
Saw 20 - 30 humpback breaches, one of the coolest things I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot
I caught up with him about a mile offshore and chased him for 45 minutes out another mile to about two miles offshore.
Here are six tokens form the 1830's. Each has it's own sea creature.
Here is the obverse and a description of them.
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Ya he was close, not close enough as I kept going towards him on my kayak.
Saw 20 - 30 humpback breaches, one of the coolest things I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot
I caught up with him about a mile offshore and chased him for 45 minutes out another mile to about two miles offshore. >>
Gosh... Did you feel like Captain Ahab in Moby Dick
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LOL, I actually usually think about "Old Man in the Sea" when I have a very large fish on when I am out there fishing solo. A very cool experience as well.
For the whale, I was actually in what my wife calls "photo mode", when I am in a state of mind where only one thing is on my mind.
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How about some photoshop magic?
That is amazing! All creatures great and small. This is on the great side for sure!
Whale lands on kayackers
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"Sou Mangueira......."
<< <i>Sea Monsters are real.
Photographed this yesterday in my kayak...... post a sea monster coin if you have one ......
That shot was a real fluke!
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<< <i>Sea Monsters are real.
Photographed this yesterday in my kayak...... post a sea monster coin if you have one ......
That shot was a real fluke! >>
LOLOLOLOL
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<< <i>You might want to take alook at this before you go chasing whales again!
Whale lands on kayackers >>
LMAO as I had already seen that video (whale does NOT land on the people) before going out kayaking that day. The video was on my mind for sure as I had just seen it.
Couple of things ....
I saw this from off in the distance and raced towards the animal and once in range, I kept moving towards it. Kept trying to get closer and closer. I talked with my wife about it ( she kayaks and photographs for fun) and said she would have done the exact same thing, that is, race towards the awesome animal.
I am a poker player and know odds. The odds of a whale landing on a kayak and killing you are just about zero. If in fact that ever happened, that that would just be fate. I never worry about fate, I just move forward towards the deep end .....
Shot this yesterday as well when it almost landed on a fishing boat.
as a nature lover and casual wildlife photographer, i have been wondering if it is better to just video everything (if ones video quality is on-par with the photo side
which it usually isnt) so the perfect moment doesn't escape and simply go back and screenshot the video to get the images we want and also may inadvertently
capture something we didn't see the first time around?
i take too many extras and miss too many good ones.
i have seen many birds between a hummingbird and sparrow in size and their markings/behaviors are fascinating. saw a couple new ones today i've yet to identify.
also some insects that pretty much defy my ability to appropriately describe but that doesn't diminish my ability to be in awe of them; not limited to but including a
jumping spider that lays completely flat and one that moves like it has the ability to give sound a run for its money! blew.my.mind
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In a way, still photography is much harder than video as it has to hold to viewers attention in a single moment.
That said,
I have considering doing stock footage, but, that would mean, no GoPro (quality not good enough for high end stock footage), but getting some high end video camera with a water housing.
I know I would be good at it, but I like the harder challenge .....
here is a small sample with my backup nikon L110. not bad but not good enough. need a good telephoto? lens for my d90.
those whale shots are great btw
ill share a collage of some of my interesting ones.
hope you dont mind thread-sharing
A couple or more miles out to Sea in a kayak?
Not for most of us!
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It so happens I did have a sea monster coin, last year, and a very ancient one at that. The "ketos" on the reverse of it is about as sea-monstery a beastie as you're likely to find.
Sicily, Akragas: silver hemidrachm, ca. 410-406 BC
Obverse- eagle right, clutching dead hare in its talons, barley grain behind.
Reverse- Crab, with ketos below, swimming left with fish in its jaws.
Lake Alice, Gainesville, FL.
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1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
Years ago a buddy and me were fishing in the Lake Washington ship canal in Seattle, usually just for small trout and some bass. We saw an enormous fish swim slowly under the dock right under where we were standing, far too large for any salmon that make their way up the canal in the summer. Of course, nobody believed our story, but there were other reports of log-sized fish seen in the lake. It was explained a few years later when an 11 foot long white sturgeon was found floating dead in Lake Washington. Since then, a number of large sturgeon have been caught, or found dead in the lake. The huge fish that we saw was a white sturgeon, unknown in Lake Washington before 1987
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<< <i>Sea Monsters are real.
Photographed this yesterday in my kayak...... post a sea monster coin if you have one ......
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That shot was a real fluke! >>
LOLOLOLOL >>
Glad somebody got it.......
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