Surveying Her Territory

[Jim Fenton]

Looking over her territory from the nest tree....likely watching the two unwelcome juveniles who have been coming in lower each day for a look.

Cloned out the two scrawny horizontal branches as I felt they didn't balance well with this particular pose. Decided to leave some of the needles.

Nikon D300s, 600VR, TC14EII, ISO 500, F8, 1/1000, NearUniWB, CW Metering, +.3 EV

[Eric Diller]

Beautiful capture.....such a Majestic Raptor for sure!

Well done.......

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice lokoing eagle, I agree it looks quite majestic. Is that a feather shaft sticking out near the tail? I'd look into neutralizing the blue reflected on bottom left edge of the perch. All else is spot on!

[Jim Fenton]

You know...I never even saw the thing sticking out! Actually, it looks like grass to me.
As for the blue reflection...I can't see it on 2 different monitors?

[Manjesh Lingamurthy]

Hi Jim

Very well done. Great details on the bird, in a very well exposed image. I prefer a little crop from the top and left.

[Morkel Erasmus]

what more could you ask for? a regal bird, sweet light, clear perch. I might take some off the top and right. wish it was mine!

[Daniel Cadieux]

You know...I never even saw the thing sticking out! Actually, it looks like grass to me.
As for the blue reflection...I can't see it on 2 different monitors?

"Reflection" may have been the wrong word to use...

On the shadowed part of the perch there is a bit of blue "bleeding" into it from the sky. Not sure how to technically describe it. I know its minor, but it caught my eye.

[Robert O'Toole]

Nice and sharp Jim. The 600+1.4+D300s was a great choice for this. Eye level images are always much more attractive then 100-400 or 70-200 looking straight up.

Robert