Avian Image of the Week Pieter de Waal: Sandgrousefor week ending 10/29/2010

Congratulations Pieter de Waal for your image "Sandgrouse" being selected as the Avain Image of the week ending 10/29/2010!!!

1. From my Kgalagadi Transfrontier Trip. I was trying to get a group of these in flight FF. The staggered flight pattern however made this dificult as some birds were OOF. I was able to crop this one to exclude the OOF and half birds and added some canvas on the left for composition.
NR on background about 80% of FF. Beanbag from vehicle.

50D/EF500f4+1.4/f8@1/2500/iso800/EC+0.33

C&C allways welcome.

Pieter, I liked this the first time I saw it. Congrats on IOTW.

Clearly deserving! Excellent work.

lovely shot Pieter, and congrats!

Congratulations Pieter

Beautiful image...

Great job!

Outstanding flight image! Congrats!

Apologies for the late acknowledgement, been out in the field, what a nice surprise when I opened the e-mails. Thanks to all at BPN very chuffed and encouraged.

Congratulations Pieter! Very well done!

Congrats Pieter, fantastic image!

Way to go Pieter. Well deserved award.

I just need to get out more .............