Yes, Stephen Barnard said that he doubted any readers could spot the pelicans in this morning’s photo. But I have more faith in the readers. Did anybody find them? Here they are:
They’re on the island in the river! If you feel tricked, take it up with Stephen. . . .
Here’s an enlargement:
I saw that but just assumed it to be a rock. There’s no way to see individual birds in the original!!!
Take that up with Stephen, who entered it in the “Spot the. . ” series. Besides, someone spotted them!
A funny old bird is a pelican.
His beak can hold more than his belican.
Jerry said with a smile,
You can spot them on that isle.
I replied, with frustration, like helican.
Apologies to Dixon Lanier Merritt
that should be a huge flock and its not
Didn’t think they’d be anywhere away from the water and that was the only white I could see in the river.
Spot the Pelicans turned out to be much more difficult than Spot the Moths. Go figure!
In fairness, there are not enough pixels in the photo to identify those as birds. Just a white blob. But a beautiful panorama by the incomparable Stephen B. I wish I lived in such a beautiful place.
Indeed. The difficulty in spotting these birds is not due to camouflage but simply the consequence of scale.
But it is a hell of a nice picture never-the-less.
It’s the one thing that doesn’t fit in the photo.
Definitely not enough resolution to actually make out pelicans, but seemed the best bet going by color. Hence my hint in the original post, “Reminds me of a horrible duet by Dolly & Kenny.” That would be Islands In The Stream. Though “islet” would probably be a better fit.
Shit. I hope I don’t have that running through my head for the rest of the day.
Just for fun, search for “pelicans” in the WEIT search box.
I guess that I was too subtle: this “find the the pelicans” post is a duplicate from two years ago.
I guessed that was where they were!
Looks like a location shoot for a John Ford western.
Or, it just occurred to me, even more like the backdrop along the desert river where Slim Pickens bled out while making moon-eyes with Katy Jurado to the strains of Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” in Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
I spent 10 minutes staring at the picture waiting for them to move.
… what, it wasn’t Youtube? 🙁
(Okay, I did notice the white dot but couldn’t make out any detail…)
cr
It’s more than an enlargement. Blowing the .jpg up enough just reveals a white blob.
This is Stephen showing off his zoom lens, isn’t it? 😉
Nice pics, though.
cr
The first photo is a panorama stitched together from three overlapping images shot with a 24mm (wide angle) lens from far away. The second photo was shot from MUCH closer with a 700mm lens. The equivalent focal length is ridiculous.
The pelicans were obvious to the eye.
I guessed the wide angle was 24mm or thereabouts (that’s about as wide as you can go without getting weird ‘fisheye’ type effects). Good stitching software, by the way, I can’t see the join.
I was just quibbling with PCC’s use of the word ‘enlargement’ – technically it’s more of a ‘close-up’, I think.
I suspect (all joking aside) that part of what made the pelicans obvious to the eye is that they were moving a little?
I do find great difficulty in taking photos of streams or narrow woodland tracks – what is blindingly obvious to the eye in real life in the form of the rippling water or the leafy path wending its way between the ferns, just disappears in a confusion of mottled detail in even the best photo.
cr
Oops, sorry, that was a reply to Stephen of course.
cr
I use a free program called Hugin for stitching. The interface is a little clunky, but it works very well.