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Actually, it's not a recent photo at all, here's the quote underneath the picture in one of my books(The Complete Encyclopedia of Photography by Mark Edwards, published in 1991)
Stephen Dalton is a naturalist who became fascinated by the challenge of photographing insects and birds in flight. To do this, he had to design special flash equipment that would produce an extremely short burst of very bright light. This was necessary in order to produce a sharp image of his rapidly moving subjects. With help from his friend Ron Perkins, an electronics expert, they built flash equipment and an electronic trigger that would fire the flash within one-millionth of a second of a light beam being broken by an insect or bird movement.
His photographs have been published in a number of books and, apart from being beautiful to look at, they have considerable scientific value.
This picture took several weeks to take due to the problem of persuading the swallows to strike the water where the camera was focused. Over this period of time, Dalton masked most of the pond with netting, thus confining the splash down to a small area. He then set up a motorized camera, an automatic triggering device and high-speed flash heads. After another week or two of test exposures, he was able to make a series of pictures showing swallows drinking and bathing.
The picture above the caption is of a different swallow (neither African or European, and without a coconut in tow), but the background is an exact match when flipped right to left.
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