Ricardo's Blog

The winter in the southern hemisphere of the world is quickly approaching.  The water near the poles starts to get colder and colder and as a result of that many variety of fish emigrate to warmer waters traveling up north.  Right now, states like Santa Catarina in the South of Brasil witness the migration of large groups of fish like the Tainhas as they pass through their coast line.  

The groups of Tainhas are also identified by the presence of a variety of dolphins which is commonly known as Boto by the locals.  If there is Boto on the water, you can pretty much count with finding schools of fish around.  Tainhas are caught wising nets that can be either small and deployed by a person or large and deployed by a group of fishermen.  

I recently published a sequence of 12 photos showing how fisherman wait and then deploy their fishnets into the sea.  Here are a few of the photos, click on any of them to visit its flickr page and see the rest of the sequence there.  There are 12 of them, and only 8 published here.

This is the start of the sequence.  A fisherman has the fishnet in his hands and waits for the right tide to deply his fishnet.

This is the second picture on the sequence.  The fisherman starts to move his body similar to a golfer to be able to swing the fishnet as far as possible from the shore.

This is the fifth photo of the sequence.  The fisherman makes a powerful swing with the net to cast them as far as possible.

Picture 6 of 12: The swing of the fishet is in full motion.  Look how the movement of the fishnet is captured perfectly on this shot.

Picture 7 of 12: The fishnet is finally on the air as it goes out of the fisherman's hands.  The fisherman secures the net by a rope.

Photo 9 of 12. The fishnet is fully open and flying through the air.

Photo 11 out of 12: The fishnet starts to hit the water, fully opened.

Final photo: The rounded splash of ths fishnet is captured.