Turkey Vulture in a light rain

[Nancy Bell]

I don't often see the turkey vultures perched, my usual view is of a soaring bird. So I was glad I had the camera in the car when I saw this bird. I rolled down the passenger window and leaned across the seat as best as I could. A little further down the dirt road I saw what attracted the vultures, a dead yellow-bellied marmot.

Canon 1D-Mark IV, Canon 70-200 f2.8 L IS @ 200, ISO 800, f5.6, 1/250, +1 exp. comp.

All C & C most welcome.

[Alan Murphy]

Good job getting close. I would tone down the midtones just a bit.

[Paul Lagasi]

They don't usually stay on a post and let you get close..good capture. Good advice above.

[Nancy Bell]

I used curves to reduce the midtones. Not sure if it is much different.

[Michael Lotito]

Tough customer to get perched. Very good job bringing out the black detail.

[arash_hazeghi]

nice pose and details, wish he was on a better perch, there seems to be an issue with color balance since TV looks reddish brown as presented, it should be black :S3: