Bearded Vulture fly-past

[Chris van Rooyen]

Unfortunately I'm not getting much time for photography this year - but I did manage to spend two mornings in the hide at Giants Castle. Fortunately we had wind the second morning, and this magnificent specimen graced us with a visit :S3:

Camera Model: NIKON D3S
Date/Time: 2011:06:28 07:48:52
Shutter speed: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: 8
Exposure mode: Manual
Exposure compensation: -1/3
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Multi-segment
ISO: 800
Lens: VR 600mm f/4G

[Chris van Rooyen]

Apologies for icons in date/time, it should read:

28 June 2011 7h48

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Stunning light and composition, love the colours, super BG and pose.... Top shot Chris love this.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Chris, stunning shot...ur usual high standards. loved the pano crop, BG, HA, DOF...everything :-) good view of the beard.

[Grace Scalzo]

way cool, Chris. Love his eye and the look you are getting. Good to see you, missed your top notch posts!

[Paul Lagasi]

Nothing else I can say...this is a real beauty....lovely on all counts

[Aidan Briggs]

Excellent! The pose, light, and BG, are all perfect. Well done!

[Charles Glatzer]

Chris,

Gotta love this one. DOF is superb, and sharp as a tack.

Chas

[gail bisson]

What a lovely image. The head angle and visible beard really take this picture to another level. The light is so nice and the details on the wings excellent. I like the layeredhorizontal repeating lines in the wings and tail that really make the pano crop work well and gives a real sense of forward motion. I would hang this one on my wall!
Gail

[Chad Caswell]

Great shot, love the off the wing perspective, I have never seen one of these and it was a treat to see yours.

[Ofer Levy]

Great to see you posting Chris!
Lovely image and excellent techs as per your standards.

[Chris van Rooyen]

Thanks everyone, I appreciate the comments:S3:

[christopher galeski]

good to see you back,its all been said,great shot.thanks.

[Rudi van den Heever]

Great level shooting angle, detail and colors Chris!:w3

[Glenn Bartley]

Very cool! I love the angle and that crazy stare...

[Stu Bowie]

Chris, the light looks good, and I like the overall colours and detail. Good eye contact, and soaring against a great GC BG.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Great light and the quality of the image is outstanding. Very interesting wing position so different o the same poses we see over and over from GC...Seems like everyone wants the incoming pose with wings spread ready for landing. I think thats what makes this image more interesting. Like the more pano crop as well...Very high quality image Chris

[Chris van Rooyen]

Thanks Dumay. I agree that GC is a great place, but there are so many top quality images of birds landing, perhaps the challenge these days is to try and be a little bit more creative (?)

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent Chris, love the details and BG.

[Mark Dumbleton]

Stunning Chris! Technicals handled to perfection and gotta love that GC BG!

[Nico Steenberg]

Nailed to perfection !!!

[Wynand van Wyk]

Fantastic light and GC bg! Love the detail. Excellent image!:S3: