Black Eagle

[Elmar Venter]

One of my favourite birds:

Canon EOS 350D
500mm
ISO 800
f4
1/800

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

beautiful bird with a great bg`s color!!!

[Kim Rollins]

Good to see this. It looks very much like our Golden Eagles except the color.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

This guy looks quite majestic. I like the angle, head angle and BG (except for the yellowish area in the lower left) and could also see it as vertical crop. I would give it a bit more room at the bottom.

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

Like the pose, exposure & BG. Well done on this one Elmar.:)

[Nevil Lazarus]

I Like it all -- where was this? You managed to get pretty close..!

[Elmar Venter]

Thanks for all the comments!

Nevil this was taken at Giants Castle in South Africa. This beauty landed right in front of the hide.

[Ken Watkins]

Just spent 3 days in Karoo NP looking for these, not a sight, even in the sky.

At least I now know what one looks like!

[Loukie Viljoen]

You got this one super 100%, well done did he/she sit for long?

[RakeshDhareshwar]

Cant get better than this. No nits here . Simply majestic !!

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Liked the BG a lot...and the pose. Only suggestion is to tone down the perch a bit. Awesome details in the blacks.

[Elmar Venter]

Thanks everyone for comments and suggestions. Loukie, it was quite co-operative but did not hang around long enough!