Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa Message Board - Zihua Shot-a-Day - Humpback Ballet

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BTfromMN — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:17:23 +0000

Fintastic!

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LadyM in Zihua — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:12:36 +0000

You definitely should enter this photo in contests. Might just be the big winner.

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Jo in Vancouver — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:19:34 +0000

fantastic shot.. we saw lots of whales on many days while in la barra.. both humpback and we think once a gray..but sure didn't get any shots this fantastic. Ballet is right.. they seemed full of joy and were constantly breaching for about 1 hour one day. .

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NoName — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:50:23 +0000

an amazing capture of the moment....... wow. Usually when something like this happens (which is nearly as rare as hen's teeth!) our cameras are somewhere else! Bravo for being there at exactly the right time. We are very lucky to see such beauty, even in photography. Wow again.

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LadyM in Zihua — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:28:56 +0000

Great photo.

Now I bet Sally is mad she did not go fishing with you and Julio. I know I wish I had gone along. Lovely.

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ZihuaRob — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:37:55 +0000

What a stellar photo, Jeff! You should win an award for this one!

Also be on the lookout for gray whales who are also in the area now.

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BobIr — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:16:07 +0000

Fantastic shot. We saw some humpbacks breach while haveing lunch at Potosi.
The waiter went around and alerted all the customers. How many other resturants offer that service!

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judi in OKlahoma — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:11:44 +0000

Oh that is fantastic!

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JeffMN — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:08:17 +0000

In what surely must be among the strangest whale photos ever shot, a mother humpback whale and her calf frolic in the Pacific north of Ixtapa. I watch both breach a dozen times. Between the electrifying leaps, both casually wave their fins and then smack them down on the water.

But then, in an instant, there is this curious study in the unison of opposites. The calf's smooth, jet black body completes a fluid leap, just as the cow raises her gnarled, graffitied flipper as if to show her approval.

Both forms, with little evident splash, look for all the world as if they'd been copied and pasted onto an empty sea. In perfect alignment, they appear to be the same size, but somehow it all looks impossible. It is not.

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