Dance of the dolphins

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-4-21 11:50:08

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Fun in the sun

Photographer Greg Huglin of Santa Barbara, Calif., captured these striking images of bottlenose dolphins during three trips to the South African coast between 2000 and 2007. He shot the photos along a stretch of coastline between Port Elizabeth and Wilderness.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-4-21 11:50:37

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Getting into position

While on his trips to the South African coast, Greg Huglin took photos from a variety of vantage points: From a helicopter, from a motorized sailplane, from a boat in surfline and from land. All of the images were captured with film cameras, not digital cameras.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-4-21 11:50:59

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Awesome power

Huglin said it's both humbling and exciting to be in the presence of such powerful animals. "Bottlenose dolphins are the ones that do all the really fancy surfing," he said. "They’re up to 12 feet long, those suckers. ... When you put your hand on one of them, they’re solid muscle. It’s amazing how powerful they are."

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-4-21 11:51:19

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A love for the sea

Huglin has spent his entire career photographing and filming great white sharks, dolphins and other sea creatures, as well as extreme water sports. His trips to South Africa have been major highlights of his life. "From sunrise to sunset when I’m down there I’m either shooting great whites or I’m chasing dolphins," he said.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-4-21 11:51:45

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Gracefully choreographed

Huglin noted that in all the time he's spent around dolphins doing playful tricks, he's never once seen them collide into each other. "I’ve got shots of groups of 100 to 150 dolphins, and they don’t collide in the air. Their awareness is phenomenal," he said. "They always land gracefully."

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-4-21 11:52:04

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Gracefully choreographed

Huglin noted that in all the time he's spent around dolphins doing playful tricks, he's never once seen them collide into each other. "I’ve got shots of groups of 100 to 150 dolphins, and they don’t collide in the air. Their awareness is phenomenal," he said. "They always land gracefully."

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-4-21 11:52:33

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Olympians of the seas

"It's amazing how acrobatic dolphins are," Huglin said. "Surfers ride the front of a wave, and dolphins ride the back of a wave. ... The jumping ones, they wait for a wave to start breaking and they’ll leap right through the back. That’s how they get that giant air."

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-4-21 11:52:53

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Coming up for air

Bottlenose dolphins have blowholes on the tops of their heads, and they must deliberately come to the surface and open them to breathe. They usually breathe two to three times a minute, but they can stay under water for as long as 20 minutes.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-4-21 11:53:12

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Blast off!

Huglin shot this photo from a motorized sailplane. Five bottlenose dolphins can be seen just taking off on the peak of a wave. "They’re tapping the energy of the wave and being pulled forward," he said. "This is actually a pretty late takeoff."

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-4-21 11:53:32

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View from above

Huglin took this photograph from a helicopter about 1,000 to 1,200 feet above the water. The dolphins are surfacing after a wave has broken, and the color of the water is altered by a plankton bloom.

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