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Blue whale, back and dorsal fin

Monterey Bay, California, 26th August 2022.

Blue whale, back and dorsal fin
gentle lemur, 16 Oct 2022
    • gentle lemur
      The size of the whale only becomes apparent as it starts to dive, slowly rolling through the surface. The dorsal fin is just rudimentary.
      16 Oct 2022
    • dillotest0
      I recall I once had a headthought of how a maximally 'preferable' picture of a blue whale would be taken.
      The headthought involved the construction of a line of cameras going off at the same time so that the images could later me used to make a mosaic of the entire animal.
      I'm not sure if it's ever been done, however.
      23 Aug 2023
    • gentle lemur
      @dillotest0 I have toyed wwith a similar idea. I have a matching image of this whale's flukes (as you will have seen), but my photos of its head (mostly blowholes) were taken at a diffent angle as our boat drifted past the resting whale and naturally I had zoomed in as well. I did not anticipate its dive, so I missed what could have been the first image of a triptych.
      24 Aug 2023
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