Cape Vulture

[Chris Kotze]

Made this at Giants Castle SA last week with awesome light, we were so fortunate as it's currently snowing there :bg3:
Editing on a laptop as my PC is in for repairs

Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Lens 300 2.8 X 1.4
SS 1/4000
ISO 800
manual exposure
Your comments and advice appreciated

[Grady Weed]

Whats not to like...Excellent wing span, good details, tail feathers nicely seen, good eye contact. Wish it were mine.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Nice one mate. Love the pose and BG...(GC, what a place) Light looks amazing:cheers: Looks like you had a great time!

[Chad Caswell]

Wow what a spread.. nicely done! Snowing.. Brrrrr Love the BG, goes great with the bird color.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Chris, one of the best wingspreads you can hope for. stunning. light, details, shooting angle, BG...wonderful shot.

Do you have any more room in front of the bird? If so, including more there and cropping some from the other side might be a better composition.

[Sachin Saraf]

This is simply stunning capture...Love everything about this one...BG really rocks...TFS

[Jason Stander]

No else can like Mr Kotze can... Excellent Chris... WOW!:w3

[Kiran Poonacha]

Beautiful one Chris, loved the light here, great spread and BG too.. Loved it:cheers:

[Alan Murphy]

Love the detail and light.

[Charles Glatzer]

This is surreal.

Chas

[Giulio Zanni]

Wow, excellent!

Giulio

[Aidan Briggs]

Excellent! The light, details, and wingspread are all great!

[Arthur Morris]

Stunningly perfect and perfectly stunning. Killer, light, SH, and BKGR plus a great pose. I would like to see canvas added front for a more traditional 3X2 proportion.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I agree with the comp suggestion, but all else is top notch. Spectacular wingspread, and I love the head's shadow on the wing...very cool.:c3:

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Wow glorious light and amazing feather detail. Love thepose as well. I really like the curved almost circular shape the pose has created.

[noelle zaleski]

Wonderful image!

The details are amazing :S3:

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Spectacular image, Chris. The light, wing spread, bg, sharpness - all perfect.

[Dudley Watson]

Top notch image Chris...lovely light and underwing detail

[arash_hazeghi]

Excellent love the pose and details!

[Chris Kotze]

Thanks for all the kind comments and suggestions. I have done a comp as per suggestion and yep it looks much better

[Stu Bowie]

Hey Chris, looks like you used your opportunity there to good use. :w3 Brilliant timing to capture this posture and against that wonderful BG. Congrats on a fine image.

[yogesh_puranik]

awesome pose, light wingsapn BG superb one i liked the repost

[Chris Kotze]

Thanks Stu ans Yogesh:S3:

[Troy Lim]

Stunning shot!!! WOW