Take a Flying Leap (Rough-Legged Hawk)

[Steve Large]

Hi,
Here is an image of the rough-legged hawk diving from an oak tree to catch a vole. Took this one this afternoon. Hope you like it.

This is a wild bird filmed at Nanaimo Estuary, not baited.

Stats: Canon EOS-1d Mark 4, 600mm and 1.4X, 1/1600sec at F/6.3, ISO800

Steve

[keith mitchell]

Wild and magnificent looking bird Steve,can't find anything that I do not like, looks great from where I'm sitting.

Keith.

[William Dickson]

Same here Steve, Looks really good. Its looking big in the frame but I don't mind that. I think it makes this bird look better :S3: Well done and thanks for sharing

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Cool image. Love the dandling talons and the feather detail. I would give the bird more room to fly at.

[gail bisson]

Very nice indeed!
Good angle of flight and good light angle as well.
Really nice look at the underwing with this dynamic pose.
I could see a version with a bit more room bottom and left.
Gail

[shane shacaluga]

Super take off pose. Catching a wild bird like this makes the day extra special.

Maybe a slight bit more sharpening around eye and face and darkening pupil would make this even better

Hope you dont mind me trying

TFS

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Steve just a tad more sharpening - along shane's repost - would take this one up a notch. I could see a version with a bit more room below and to the left, but I also like this as is.

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent take off pose, I agree it needs a bit more sharpening but not as much as pane 6 where halo artifacts are starting to show

TFS

[shane shacaluga]

Not to sabotage the post, but to help me learn a bit more; where do you see the halo artifacts Arash? It was a 2min job to show roughly what I meant but I cannot seem to see any artifacts on my repost or not sure what you mean.

thanks for your help as usual