Eure, France · 2007-08-05 · from the GEIPAN archive
While viewing his photographs on his computer, a person discovers a strange image on one of his photos. The photographs were taken at a distance of about 1800m with a large 100-300 zoom and a doubler. After examining the series of photos, it becomes quite obvious that it is a large bird taking flight at the moment the photo was taken. The conditions of the shot (distance, zoom use, and positioning in a car) meant that the photographer did not notice the bird, which had not yet left on the first photo and had completely disappeared on the third. This kind of misidentification is particularly common, and we are very regularly led to identify birds in photos that were not noticed by the photographer. The fact of seeing a bird fly by is so ordinary that the brain, which is focused on taking the shot, completely skips over this information.
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