Bearded Vulture [Gypaetus barbatus]

[Loukie Viljoen]

Breed in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho, on the boundary of Giants Castle in the Drakensberg. Eat predominantly bones. which they swallow whole pieces up to the size of a ladies fist. Two to three bones and they fly off, only to return in 2 - 3 days. Bigger bones are dropped from great heights onto stones to shatter them.So one is extremely lucky to get them coming down to feed, and is a prize photo to get. The people after us were there for 2 days and never saw them.

File size: 175KB
Camera Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Date/Time: 2008:06:24 10:37:01
Shutter speed: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: 6.3
Exposure mode: Av
Exposure compensation: +1/3
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Multi-segment
ISO: 640
Focal length: 500mm
Image size: 800 x 577


Color profile: sRGB IEC61966-2.1

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Stunning image with incredible timing and action. Love it !!!! thanks for sharing this Loukie. The detail is outstanding and the composition over the top for me.

[Steve Wheeler]

Pose... Eye contact.. BG... Details all excellent to me.

Very sweet image!

Steve

[Desmond Chan]

Stunning is the word here !!!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Excellent pose, details, setting and BG. I find the shadow of the beak on the bird's chest a bit distracting.

[Doug Brown]

Love it Loukie! I'd like to see what it was going after, but it works very well as is!

[hans stel]

Wonderfull, what a bird, what a picture!

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Loukie,
I can live with the shadows as the wing position/detail/ & BG are great!

[Fabs Forns]

Those wings are killer!!!

Did you run some Shadow/Highlight to soften the shadow?

[Loukie Viljoen]

Fabs I ran nothing can hardly help myself in Photoshop, will try now that is is noticed, RegardsLoukei