Monday, 13th August 2012
The bleu flame dive
by Koen Cuppens
The dive of a kingfisher is for me something special.
I wanted this picture, a year later with many failures I found a place where the kingfisher came regularly fishing.
Placing a camera and trigger in a glass box.on the fishing place gave me the following picture I had in mind..
Equipment: Nikon D3200, 300mm f4 ,Sb 900 flash
Koen Cuppens
As a child I always admired the kingfisher, when you heard the sound, you saw a blue flame with a speed rush on the water, disappearing into bushes and trees.The speed and the fishing is always special to see.
In 2008 I started to photograph the kingfisher. Many hours and days of waiting was always a special occasion, over and over again.
Every day you see the beauty of nature ...
The bleu flame dive by Koen Cuppens was photo of the day on Monday, 13th August 2012. It is tagged Birds. You can leave a comment below.
56 Comments
Harry Lichtman
Wow!! Great planning and execution. A Gold Medal worthy dive!
Marie
MONUMENTAL achievement to say the least. All your waiting was worth every pixel in this photograph. Congratulations Koen.
GGriffin
Awesome capture! Thank you for sharing your masterpiece!
Ken Mustain
Koen, Awesome Picture Indeed!! A Very Unique Picture Of A Lifetime, Excellent Work My Friend
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Lorenzo Cassina
Brilliant. Congrats Koen on such great work!
Dominique
I admire your patience and stamina in studying these beautiful birds! And I am happy that at last you were rewarded with this absolutely wonderful, stunning photo!
It is one of the rare pictures that really enrichen my view of the world!
Mark Drysdale
Outstanding work……
Justine
This is phenominal !!!! I love it – love it – love it.
Werner Van Steen
WONDERFULL shot dear friend !!! It’s great to know you and to see how your skills of photography developped in such a short time !! Keep up your great work Koen ! Cheers, werner
Matt Harvey
10/10 from all the judges
Maybelene
What planning and what result! Spectacular!
Ahmed Sharif
this is crazy good!!!
Matthias Schmidt
Unbelievable! I didn’t consider such a snapshot possible. Very aestehic.
Pauline Jones
Wow that is some achievement; what an amazing shot!
Jackie
Beyond spectacular!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wanda Krack
A rare catch, and a beautiful one.
deb
incredible! thank you
marleenschotte@gmail.com
Buitengewoon en prachtig! Gefeleciteerd!!!
Linda
Wow!!! I am stunned …speechless!
John Mumaw
One of the finest images I’ve seen here. All of your hard work and patience really paid off.
Excellent work!
Donna Weems
A dive and photo worthy of an olympic gold.
Psalms 23
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWsome !!!!!!!!
David
Sensacional!!!!
sensational!!!
Diane D'Aurora
Picture of the year!
Brad Flack
Is there anywhere you can buy a print of this pic?
Howard
What a wonderful moment captured, with the bubbles still adhering to the kingfisher. Thank you for your four years of investing to capture and share this moment!
Jim Atkin
My goodness gracious what an achievement. You deserve all the comments that have been submitted.
Laurie
Absolutely incredible!!
dorotea
Immagine spettacolare! Il martin pescatore è già stupendo ma in questa ripresa….wowwww !
Dominic Verhulst
Gold medal for you my friend!
You deserved it after such a hard and long work.
Beautiful and spectacular.
Mike
Brilliant capture !
Nancy Fuller
This is a truly amazing shot – congratulations!
Laura Milholland
Just to get a nice pic of a Kingfisher is quite an accomplishment – but THIS is stupendous! Huge WOW!
Ellen Cotton
Incredible work!!!!!!!!!!
E Mancuso
Wow! That is one fantastic photo. It took imagination, patience and talent. Thanks for sharing.
Waynec
What a monumental effort that picture must represent!
I wish you would share the story and how the failures finally turned to this wonderful success.
Janet Blake
That is one of the most fascinating photos I’ve EVER seen!
Tazmin Shariff
Absolutely breathtaking!! Your patience and perseverance paid off.
laurens p
Koen een machtige foto !! schitterend !!
Judy
Outstanding beyond words !!!!
JG
Absolutely Amazing!!!
Mario Gustavo Fiorucci
Outstanding work……
Rita
This is absolutely amazing !!!
Blue Bella
What a splendid image. This would be a perfect model for a glassblowing artist.
Smitha
Great shot! Kudos on your patience in capturing that one!!
Paddy Bell
This Lifer will be their for ever?
Thomas Boulogne
Prachtig gedaan koen! enorm vette foto!
Gordon
Years from now you’ll still be telling people about taking this amazing shot…and I’ll still be talking about seeing it. Congrats. Amazing!
Jacqueline Deely
This is an absolutely amazing shot! Should be on the cover of National Geographic!
Lisette
I think this deserves the Gold medal of photography
Deborah Flowers
Whoooaaa… incredibly gorgeous and oh so fabulous!
Congratulations on this.
Absolutely Stunning.
Lisa
Spectacular!!!!!!!
Helena
Outstanding! Congratulations!
Amanda
Are you selling prints? Very interested. Thanks
Koen Cuppens
Thanks for all the nice comments,
For more info you can always contact me at the following email address
koen.cuppens @ telenet.be
Cheers..
Tony Harte
Truely amazing ! I hope that you already have a framed photo hanging in your house, because it will take a long time for anyone takes a better picture of a Kingfisher !