Friday, February 27, 2015
Octopus leaps out of water, tackles a crab, drags it back to the shallows
I saw this video at a couple of places. I forget where I read a page that said the girl is never without a camera around her neck. Bless her heart. You know, it is really hard to get fast shots like this. Opportunities pop up, boom, they're gone before you're ready. Kudos for great responses. I love seeing kids explore the world around them, being amazed, uploading videos, and seeing those go viral like this.
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Next time she may recall her joyous instinct to flail her holding camera arms in excitement, in time to subdue it.
But then again... she did needed to take a closer look.
Like Chip says, we are fortunate she got a nice nature in action shot.
The ocean contains a lot of evil stuff.
Awesome.
Baby octopus. Incredibly quick and agile.
Cthulhu 2016?
Sometimes the octopus wins and sometimes it doesn't…
Methadras, I was thinking that same thing, I sort of transported out there mentally, barefoot on the wet rocks, I'd be a lot worse, believe me. At this point I have to be sitting or leaning against a sturdy pole. There is no way I can stand and peer through the viewfinder and maintain balance. I just cannot. Far less on jagged wet rocks.
And I was thinking something else...appreciating Methadras' comment and zagging off to go a different direction.
The "moving around while taking the money shot" is typical of the energy young children display in drawings where they'll capture action with back and forth movement easily misidentified as "scribbles". I'm seeing the photographer's movements testifying to a burst of felt emotional energy that's part of the excitement, surprise, awe, horror, delight and wonderment involved with watching an unexpected life/death experience unfold.
Older dudes with more experience learn to deliver the goods with caps and pics of screeching children with birds atop their heads.
I see this video as another version of the white/gold/blue/black dress experience, with the octo coming off dark. And creepy.
We can all be grateful that the vagaries of evolution did not cause the octopus to have retractable fangs at the end of their tentacles and a taste for human flesh. That would be no day at the beach.
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