{"id":4875,"date":"2014-03-13T06:45:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T10:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2014-03-13T06:45:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T10:45:57","slug":"seal-gyrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=4875","title":{"rendered":"Seal Gyrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seals spend a good deal of their lives on land, especially when giving birth and nursing…but they are only really at home in the water.  In the sea they are sleek and elegant, fast and graceful. On land they waddle and crawl, ungainly at best, awkward most of the time…when they are not sprawled out any old which way asleep. Seal pups, before they put on the layers of fat that will insulate them the rest of their lives, are slimmer and more agile. In fact, they get into the most impossible shapes. I am not sure what they are doing, but I saw, and photographed, many pups attempting to turn back on their own tails on my last visit to the Children’s Pool at La Jolla…like this one. His mother is not impressed \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

Olympus OM-D E-M10 with 75-300mm zoom. 200mm equivalent. Shutter preferred. ISO 1600 @ 1\/1000th @ f5.1. Processed in Snapseed on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014.<\/p>\n

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