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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Helicopter Crop Duster

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When I posted the photo of the Helicopter Crop Duster the other day I wasn't able to share all the images I wanted to so I decided to do another post. They amaze me! Before you ask, this is the morning I just grabbed one of my cameras (as is) as a just in case I saw something. I happened to grab the Canon 50D - my favorite for moving subjects, it's a sports camera. It happened to have the 70-200mm lens on, as I had been photographing my flying squirrel the previous evening. Now, if I had known what I was going to be shooting I would have grabbed the 100-400mm, but as it is this fellow kept zipping right above our heads.

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I wonder what he has in his cooler. See it at his feet?

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There he goes again.

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He would cross over the road we were on and turn it above the trees next to us. Amazingly close!

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I have a photo exactly like this showing the copter in focus but I wanted to include this one because I laugh at the chance that I focused on the power lines! If I had tried to focus on the lines it would have been hard, but I was trying to focus on any part of this quickly moving copter and it just so happened this one shot I got the line, lol. Can you tell that he's very close to those lines?

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Here he comes again! Directly under the power lines sits a sprinkler, that's what you see in the foreground here, now watch this. . .

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He barely cleared it each time! Amazing flying!

I did post about a helicopter crop duster 2 years ago, not sure if it's the same one.  And like that one, this one did land on a truck to refill, and once again, I missed that shot. :(  He was on the other side of those trees you see in the background when he did it.