Comments on: Running With Both Feet Off the Ground! https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/04/29/running-with-both-feet-off-the-ground/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:37:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Pat Fishburne https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/04/29/running-with-both-feet-off-the-ground/comment-page-1/#comment-1828892 Fri, 30 Apr 2021 12:37:09 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=73657#comment-1828892 Art: You can almost see the sanderling running. I also like the soft color at the top that repeats the colors in the sanderling.

]]> By: Steve https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/04/29/running-with-both-feet-off-the-ground/comment-page-1/#comment-1828794 Thu, 29 Apr 2021 20:27:37 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=73657#comment-1828794 Artie, your image of the running sanderling reminded me of an important development in the history of photography. In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge photographed a horse in various stages of its gallop, demonstrating for the first time that the animal does have all its hooves off the ground at one point in its gait (something that was unknown at the time):

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-19th-century-photographer-first-gif-galloping-horse-180970990/

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