swimming with fish

[daniel valovich]

While kayaking this osprey went for lunch in front of the boat. The fish is a crappie weighing a couple of lbs.
nikon d300
nikon 80-200 2.8D@ 200 mm
1/800s
f5.6 aperture prority
iso 200

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_0lSa66pPKio/TLwxti-DZEI/AAAAAAAAFis/bx1vCdxgf6w/s800/DSC_2698.jpg

[Randy Stout]

Daniel:

the big question is: Did he manage to take off with it?

Nice colors in the image, a very uncommon pose to see him down in the water so far.
The image quality seems a bit soft, how big of crop is this?
It looks like it could stand a CCW rotation to level the bird in the water. You can use the ripples as a guide about how much to rotate it.

Great moment captured. Do you have others in the series?

Cheer

Randy

[daniel valovich]

I think I surprised him because he attempted to take off with the crappie and then saw me. He did a 360 and flew directly overhead
as if to show his displeasure of missing lunch. He probably came back when I left. I shot about twenty exposures of the action which are sharper than the posted image.I didn't have time to set up the shot, I just reacted as quick as I could without taking a swim.
Thanks so much for your comments!