From: SPINELESS (redcloud54@earthlink.net)
Date: 11/05/02-05:53:46 PM Z
Thanks for that image, Sandy.
Sandy King wrote:
>
> One of the greatest joys experienced from my involvement with
> photography, greater even than image making, has been the
> experiences derived from seeing things that most never see.
>
> Yesterday, at Tallulah gorge near Clayton, Georgia offered such an
> experience. The gorge itself is awesome, some several hundred feet
> high with a fairly large stream at the bottom that cascades down the
> side of a mountain. And the fall colors this year are spectacular.
> However, as Sam Wang and I stood at the top of an overlook over the
> gorge something quite unique to both of our experiences took place. A
> large number of eagles, perhaps as many ad 12-15, suddenly began
> soaring beneath us, quite nearby at perhaps less than 25-50 feet. And
> from time to time one of the eagles would fly straight up toward us,
> coming to with 10-15 feet, and then at the last moment veer off the
> one side. I have seen eagles fly above me on many occasions, but the
> sight of them soaring beneath us, and the bottom of the gorge
> hundreds of feet below them, was simply awe inspiring. We could even
> see the way they used the top tips of their wings to adjust to the
> thermals, as they circled around just beneath our vantage point.
>
> Happily I did not have on hand a suitable camera to photograph the
> experience. Better I think, because that might have distracted me
> from seeing.
>
> Sandy King
>
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