Grady Weed
02-24-2009, 01:05 PM
On my recent trip to South Florida, at Anhinga Trail, the vultures were everywhere. Perhaps the freeze killed off some exotics and the vultures were earning there keep. Anyway, you couldn't step anywhere without tripping over these guy's. So...I grabbed some images of them close up. Almost full frame here. I thought they came out rather well. Up here in Maine you cannot get within 100 feet of them. The farmers and hunters shoot them, so they are scared of any human presence.
Canon EOS-1D Mark II N, Shooting Date/Time 2/13/2009 15:36:32, Shutter Speed 1/640Sec. Av(Aperture Value) F8.0, Evaluative metering, Exposure Compensation +1/3, ISO 320, Lens: EF300mm f/2.8L IS USM. On Gitzo Tripod with Wimberley 2 Head, eye level kneeling down. Subject was sitting on the rails about 10 yards down the trail from the head, left side. Nice light made this one a keeper for me.
Some may not think they make good subjects, but I think they are "good looking" in their own way. I like the way they hop along as they move about. They even ran and hoped along the fence rail in order to take off, just to fly 20 feet down the trail to get away from a more aggressive vulture. They ran off the Turkey Vultures.
Canon EOS-1D Mark II N, Shooting Date/Time 2/13/2009 15:36:32, Shutter Speed 1/640Sec. Av(Aperture Value) F8.0, Evaluative metering, Exposure Compensation +1/3, ISO 320, Lens: EF300mm f/2.8L IS USM. On Gitzo Tripod with Wimberley 2 Head, eye level kneeling down. Subject was sitting on the rails about 10 yards down the trail from the head, left side. Nice light made this one a keeper for me.
Some may not think they make good subjects, but I think they are "good looking" in their own way. I like the way they hop along as they move about. They even ran and hoped along the fence rail in order to take off, just to fly 20 feet down the trail to get away from a more aggressive vulture. They ran off the Turkey Vultures.