Someday ... someday I'm going to get that bat photo I want. Looking straight up at the belly of a bat flying overhead, with a long lens and a [expletive]ing huge flash, with black sky behind it. I want to see the colour and texture of its fur, and I want it to be unquestionably a "bat right overhead in the dark" shot.
This makes me think of the Fourth of July celebration I attended in 2002. The festivities took place on a rooftop deck a few blocks from where they had placed the fireworks batteries, so we were expecting quite a show. What we were not expecting was that the happy, early evening, just started feeding, bats would be figuratively blinded and literally have the crap scared out of them when the fireworks went off. We had one dive bomb us, nearly fly right into my head, correct at the last moment, and succeed in only shitting on me, rather than crashing into me.
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This makes me think of the Fourth of July celebration I attended in 2002. The festivities took place on a rooftop deck a few blocks from where they had placed the fireworks batteries, so we were expecting quite a show. What we were not expecting was that the happy, early evening, just started feeding, bats would be figuratively blinded and literally have the crap scared out of them when the fireworks went off. We had one dive bomb us, nearly fly right into my head, correct at the last moment, and succeed in only shitting on me, rather than crashing into me.
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Hmm. I wonder how the bats are reacting to the whine of the units charging up. Maybe I should try flashbulbs...