Earth Flight [Blu-ray]

On par with Planet Earth, Life and Frozen Planet...
THE GIST: Six continents. Four years worth of filming. Literally, shot from the birds point-of-view. You see what the bird sees. You get to experience the choices he makes, the scenery and expansive, often dangerous, landscapes he navigates.

So I picked up this Blu-Ray series a week or so ago and I'm already finished. I was watching two episodes a night, completely sucked in. Originally, I thought I could restrain myself and watch one episode every other night, but it's just an impossibility with this highly edifying nature documentary.

If you haven't watched the trailer, head to Youtube after you finish this review and give it a watch. What you'll experience are tiny high resolution cameras mounted to the backs of agile birds as they trek great distances, incredibly numbing altitudes and navigate the bodies of dense and stunning wilderness with awesome nimbleness; like the forest scene where a hawk weaves at light-speed around massive tree's seeking its next...

Fantastic.
I was sitting on the beach a few weeks ago on the Peninsula Valdez next to a cameraman from the BBC. Both of us had photo permits from the government of Argentina to film the Orcas attacking sea lions on the beach. Later on I asked him what he was doing. I did notice he was filming in 3-D. He told me they were remaking a series called Earth Flight in 3-d and told me I could find it on Amazon.

When I got home, I debated whether to spend so much money on this series. I finally ordered. My wife and I are sophisticated wildlife travelers and photographers and have high expectations for this type of material. We were not disappointed. This series competes very well with the very popular Winged Migration except that there is so much more material. We also enjoyed the 6th episode which showed how they went about much of the filming.

What do Orcas have to do with birds? Petrels come in droves to feed on sea lion remains.

The birds would approve...
I envy birds... but this documentary leveled things off a little bit. The views from those cameras on the birds make you feel that you are riding on top of these incredible winged creatures and that they share what they see and how things look from there. It's a beautiful world, beautifully presented.

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