Red-tailed Hawk.

[Daniel Cadieux]

No prey, so it does not qualify for the theme! I was still happy this adult RTH came circling by a couple of times before heading back off. The second pass was too close and I clipped the wings (it would have fit perfectly had I thought of flipping the camera to a vertical), but here on the first pass it was just at the right distance. I did need to move it back in the frame by adding canvas in front and re-cropping, but that is all fine with me.

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/2000s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, lightened some parts on the body and face (dodge tool), and removed an ugly and small loose piece of stringy debris from the talons.

[Karl Egressy]

Excellent IQ and nice full stretched wings and fanned tail, Daniel.

[Ed Kelly]

Very clean Daniel. Nice angle.

Ed

[Dennis Behn]

This is simply a very attractive angle Daniel. Great exposure as well. Very nice!

[Randy Stout]

Daniel:

Very nice angle indeed, well exposed. Soft underwing lighting.

I could see a vertical crop as well because of the strong diagonal line of the wings.

Cheers

Randy

[Charlene Bacchioni]

Great image Daniel .

[Bill Dix]

Nice flight pose with great spread wings and tail. Good detail on his rather bedraggled flight plumage.

[mohammad reza shahab]

Excellent Wings and tail pose.very Good detail .