tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post6775994408967090729..comments2024-03-26T08:18:06.895-04:00Comments on Moristotle & Co.: Fish for FridayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-72979569766155593532014-02-24T08:24:54.765-05:002014-02-24T08:24:54.765-05:00THANK YOU for the additional insight! Fascinating!...THANK YOU for the additional insight! Fascinating!Moristotlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02211602374384087074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-45671951364710583772014-02-23T22:10:30.549-05:002014-02-23T22:10:30.549-05:00Taking that a step further, I would guess the vide...Taking that a step further, I would guess the videographer worked with someone who was a falconer, and they probably shot hours of video with the trained hawk making several attempts at different squirrels. <br /><br />The little "inside" information on such comes from when I used to sell photos to a wide array of game and fish magazines. Our specialty for a couple of years was photographing various dogs "pointing" quail, pheasant and other game birds that were only four or five feet from the dogs' noses. People marveled at the photos and a couple of them won national awards. Fortunately no one asked exactly how we captured the images. The secret was having my assistant lie down in a field in a perfect photo setting and hold a captive bird by its feet while we carefully camouflaged his arm. The handler then brought in a dog, had it point on cue, and we had our image. <br /><br />That said, the video is much more amazing because of all the moving pieces - and I don't think there was a camouflaged arm holding the hawk or squirrel in any of the footage. motomyndhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10571595340251375602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-38853627288509657212014-02-22T10:09:38.711-05:002014-02-22T10:09:38.711-05:00As someone commented in the thread of emails that ...As someone commented in the thread of emails that brought that to me, "HOW did they do that!?"<br /> I suspect that clips from several incidents, and possibly involving more than one hawk and more than one squirrel, were edited together.<br /> If anyone of us learns "the secret," let's share it with the rest of us.Moristotlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02211602374384087074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-15248664088204820622014-02-21T22:03:29.903-05:002014-02-21T22:03:29.903-05:00That video of the hawk and the squirrel is incredi...That video of the hawk and the squirrel is incredible! Drama, intrigue, suspense, cliffhanger ending - and all in a few minutes instead of having to sit through a movie with a few minutes of action and two hours of filler. Years ago I lived in a cabin by a small lake in a nature preserve in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia, and every winter a goshawk spent the winter strafing squirrels as they fled through the trees. I never managed to take one decent photo of the action; for someone to make an entire video of such is just simply amazing!motomyndhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10571595340251375602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-79237283266738373762014-02-21T18:06:02.978-05:002014-02-21T18:06:02.978-05:00Smiles are always good.Smiles are always good.Moristotlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02211602374384087074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-40725848563896045142014-02-21T16:44:56.164-05:002014-02-21T16:44:56.164-05:00Don't get picky---be happy somebody read it an...Don't get picky---be happy somebody read it and commented.[smile] Underthebellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06280147303704868805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-82524789155569782612014-02-21T08:55:24.479-05:002014-02-21T08:55:24.479-05:00Why would you say that? <grin> Was it the vi...Why would you say that? <grin> Was it the video of the brave and lucky squirrel?Moristotlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02211602374384087074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-50563220373685248602014-02-21T08:29:44.468-05:002014-02-21T08:29:44.468-05:00Very good fish this morning.Very good fish this morning.Underthebellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06280147303704868805noreply@blogger.com