Delicious eye ball!

[Vincent Grafhorst]

For a vulture the eyes are the easiest way into the skull of a dead animal and is therefore the first to be eaten. For more details on the event I refer to my image posted today in the Wildlife gallery.

I decided to go in horribly close here to capture the gruesome details.

Camera Model Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/800
Av( Aperture Value ) 8.0
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
Exposure Compensation -1/3
ISO Speed 320
Lens EF500mm f/4L IS USM +2.0x
Focal Length 1000.0 mm
Flash On
Flash Type External E-TTL
Flash Exposure Compensation -2
AF Mode AI Servo AF

Vincent Grafhorst
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[Axel Hildebrandt]

This really doesn't leave much to the imagination. :) Interesting complement to your post in the wildlife forum.

[Ken Watkins]

Oh that is remarkably good, not for the squeamish, but it is real life!

[Krijn Trimbos]

**** discusting! Love the cruelty of this shot and the shape of the vultures neck, but if you wouldn't have mentioned it I wouldn't have known it was an eye socket, could be just me but I think that if you would have included the entire ear that it would have helped to set of the eye as part of the head IMHO. Apart from that minor nit, very very cool Vincent.