Another Bearded Vulture

[Chris van Rooyen]

Another image from my Giants Castle trip last week. I cloned out a tracking device with an aerial from its back.

Camera Model: NIKON D3S
Date/Time: 28 June 2011 07h49
Shutter speed: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: 8
Exposure mode: Manual
Exposure compensation: -1/3
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Multi-segment
ISO: 1000
Lens: VR 600mm f/4G

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Chris,
Sweeeeet pose, BG, and light! Nice job eliminating the tracking device too! The look back puts it over the top!

[Wynand van Wyk]

Wow, fantastic pose and feather detail! Love the amazing light and GC background. A winner! Great to have sir here.

Superbly done, as always!:S3:

[Stu Bowie]

I like the banking angle, shows of the top nicely. Good eye contact, sharp, with a typical GC BG. Well captured.

[Bill Dix]

Terrific shot. Wonderful wing position nicely framing the look-back head. Super detail, nice light and BG. Can't suggest a thing that would make this better.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Love it! The head turn makes this one even more special. Very impressive:S3:

[arash_hazeghi]

awesome Chris this is a winner and the best of this series

[Dumay de Boulle]

Best pose so far. Great job on the removing of the tracking device...All other aspects are perfect. Thanks for sharing this one Chris:cheers::S3:

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Chris this is just plain stunning. Does not get any better than this!
Pose, light, bg, details - all jaw droppingly good.
Outstanding work!

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Fantastic image, my favorite out of the three u posted, just love the head turn, killer BKGD and colours TFS:cheers:

[Arno Ellmer]

Exceptional,as your previous post !I love the HA and the superb detail in the tail and wings.VWD ,Chris.
It seems as if they made their appearance very early on that day ! Very fortunate.:S3:

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

fantastic pose and feather detail!

[Nico Steenberg]

Perfect :eek:

[gail bisson]

Chris,
I had this picture up on my monitor and my husband walked by and said " That shot is good enough for you to quit your day job". Alas, I had to tell him it wasn't mine. ( he isn't a birder so wouldn't know about bearded vultures in Africa and not Nova Scotia!) So back to work for me!
I love this picture although I still prefer #1.
I am repeating myself when I say great light, great exposure, love the look-back. Another beauty,
Gail

[Dudley Watson]

Excellent image with with lovely feather detail VWD

[Ofer Levy]

Superb image!!!

[Chris van Rooyen]

Thanks for all the comments guys, much appreciated:S3:

[christopher galeski]

Excellent image,great detail,good BG,nice HA,and flight pose.thanks.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Chris, definitely the best so far of this series. loved the dorsal view, sharpeness, comp, BG....head turn makes it so much better. Well done.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Totally Loved it Chris Bhai, need to come there just for this.. :cheers:

[Geir Jensen]

It was an amazing picture. This is one of the birds I dream to see once in a lifetime. Greetings from Geir Jensen

[Morkel Erasmus]

Magnificent capture Chris!! :cheers::5