Juvenile Bearded Vulture

[Chris Kotze]

Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
EF300mm f/2.8L IS USM +2.0x
SS 1/1000
ISO 800
f5.6
Manual Exposure
Giants Castle South Africa
Your comment and advice are appreciated

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Chris, this is a spectacular image with great detail and a very dynamic feel. Not much more I can add :)

[Randy Stout]

Chris:

Lovely colors, sharpness, wing position. Generally a shot form this angle can have problems with the head getting lost against the body, but the strong eye contact works here.

Is the BG as shot, or did you do some softening in post?

Cheers

Randy

[Chris Kotze]

Thanks Miguel & Randy the background is as shot, it's a OOF mountain

[Robert Holguin]

Wonderful shot.
I really like the flight angle towards you and the pose. Great background and excellent eye contact.
Very well done.

[PhilCook]

Odd looking face on this bird, but the eye contact with camera is great, liking the earthy color tones too, majestic wing form captured

[Lorant Voros]

The eye contact makes it really special for me. Colors are beautiful and the BG is almost unreal. Great work, Chris.

[Shawn Zierman]

The background is amazing!!
Love the flight pose and composition...compelling eye contact too...

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Gorgeous Chris, what fantastic color and BG. I also like eye contact.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Great eye contact and different bg color

[Frank Schauf]

Very nice flight pose and bg colours.

[Chris Kotze]

Thanks everyone it's much appreciated