City - Puerto del carmen State - LANZOROTE Country - Spain
About
It was a beautiful, pleasant, gently breezy night Lanzorote, and I was on my own. Went to a sea side restaurent for some seafood. I was lost in my thoughts when this fellow alighted on the shore.
He went to the very edge of the shore rocks to take position. And there he stood waiting patiently. I sat there even more patiently with camera in hand.
After a while, he started to recede backwards along the rocks and taking position at various points along the way. I watched him for 2 hours - in that time, he caught nothing !!!, and he retreated ever so gently along the rocks.
I was fascinated and bit amused by the crane for not catching anything. I pointed out to the friendly waiter about the crane's patience and retreat. He said, "Sir, this is a romantic crane". He only comes on a night like today - beautiful and romantic nights. He never comes on a bad windy night. He always starts at the same point and start to recede back along the shore just like today. Then after few hours he is gone. We do not know where he goes. But he always appears on a day like this. He is realy ROMANTIC". !!!!
What a lovely story. When he finished the story I turned arround - to find the rock empty. Yes, he was GONE.
Beautiful gold glow from the evening light, I bet the crane just comes for the atmosphere, maybe waiting for a beau. Great story Ken and the other pics are an added bonus. Alison
Great capture of the moment, Ken! You have beautiful colours here, and great composition, with the bird adding a lot of interest. Very interesting "about", as well! Dave.
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{K:150877} 10/22/2004
