Beautiful Animals

Tigershark, He's a beauty. And that's a wonderful picture. Do you ever wonder how wildlife photographers manage to catch those events that take just a second but that look positively glorious? Patience and luck, I guess.

Look at the detail in that picture! Magnifico. Thanks, kid.

I saw a documentary a few years back about someone wanting to photograph great white sharks breaching--not that common an occurrence. The photographer set up his gear on a boat. Poised and ready. Poised and ready. For hours. Every time he stood up and moved around a bit, he worried that he'd miss the shot. He finally got it. Don't know if this is the shot, but he got one like it:

Beautiful humpback.

I have a feeling that they have to make the great white breach off California by introducing artificial stimuli. South Africa is the only place they do it naturally??