From: Dave Rose (cactuscowboy@attbi.com)
Date: 11/05/02-07:54:20 PM Z
I've spent countless hours hiking and exploring the backcountry, from the
New Jersey pine barrens, to glacier clad peaks in Wyoming. I've had many
close encounters with wildlife, usually with a 4x5 camera at hand.... not
the right equipment to capture the moment. Some of my best photographs are
the ones I've never taken, but have only recorded in my memory.
Thanks for sharing the image of the eagles soaring in the Tallulah Gorge.
They are truly spectacular birds. I live within 150 yards of the Shoshone
River, south of Powell, Wyoming. During the winter, bald and golden eagles
cruise my backyard, hunting rabbits and trout. There's really nothing quite
like staring into the eye of an eagle as it flies within 10 yards of you.
Dave in Wyoming
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandy King" <sanking@clemson.edu>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 3:56 PM
Subject: Where eagles fly, and some alt photographers go!
> 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.
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