Overcast Day in La Jolla, Phillip Colla Photography

Overcast Day in La Jolla

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Latitude: 32° 51' 0.75" N, Longitude: 117° 16' 13.01" W, Coord: 32.850211°, -117.27028°
Filed under: California, Pelican, Photo of the Day, Wildlife on 12/30/2007

Check out our Guide to Photographing Pelicans in La Jolla.

It looked beautiful out my front window this morning, so I headed off to La Jolla hoping for some sharp brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) flight shots. Not to be. The clouds had built up around Mt. Soledad by the time I got down there. I tried to salvage the morning with some blurred flight shots and got a couple of marginal keepers but the color of the light was weird (see shots below). What saved the morning from being a total loss was a small group of gregarious sea lions. Having been hauled out for a while most of them were a nice shade of blond (and dumb?).

Brown pelican in flight, blurred due to long exposure before sunrise., Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus, Copyright Phillip Colla, image #20119, all rights reserved worldwide.
Brown pelican in flight, blurred due to long exposure before sunrise. La Jolla, California, USA.
Image: 20119  
Species: Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA
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Brown pelican in flight, blurred due to long exposure before sunrise., Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus, Copyright Phillip Colla, image #20120, all rights reserved worldwide.
Brown pelican in flight, blurred due to long exposure before sunrise. La Jolla, California, USA.
Image: 20120  
Species: Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA
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California sea lions hauled out on rocks beside the ocean., Zalophus californianus, Copyright Phillip Colla, image #20130, all rights reserved worldwide.
California sea lions hauled out on rocks beside the ocean. La Jolla, California, USA.
Image: 20130  
Species: Zalophus californianus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA
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Brown pelican head throw, blurred due to long exposure before sunrise. During a bill throw, the pelican arches its neck back, lifting its large bill upward and stretching its throat pouch., Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus, Copyright Phillip Colla, image #20121, all rights reserved worldwide.
Brown pelican head throw, blurred due to long exposure before sunrise. During a bill throw, the pelican arches its neck back, lifting its large bill upward and stretching its throat pouch. La Jolla, California, USA.
Image: 20121  
Species: Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA
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