Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Spawning salmon

SPAWNING SALMON, KETCHIKAN CREEK, KETCHIKAN, ALASKA, SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Pentax K-3
Pentax 18-135 at 135mm
1/125 sec. f8
ISO 1600

Along the creek in the eponymous town of Ketchikan many thousands of salmon struggled upstream to spawn and then die. These exhausted specimens rested briefly in a shallow eddy before resuming the quest.

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