Cape vulture (Giant's Castle)

[Geurt Bloem]

I had an opportunity over the past week to visit one of our mountain sanctuaries called Giant's Castle and had a lot of fun making images of vultures and the odd buzzard or two. Below I show a Cape vulture coming in to land at a hide where these birds are fed during winter times.
Stats are:
1D MIII with 600 f4 IS plus 1.4TC
Av is f8
Tv is 1/1600
ISO is 400
Manual
Evaluative metering

Thanks for looking.

[Fabs Forns]

Terrific background that sets off the bird wonderfully. BNice and sharp, shame on the shadow in the right wing, maybe you can pull some more detail out of it?
Thanks for sharing this!

[Brian Wong]

Hi Geurt!

I echo Fabs on the really nice background, and the nice pose. It it probably part of the background, but the 2-3 large dark areas to the lower right of the bird, almost look like large dust spots.

[Stephen Earle]

A place I must visit. Excellent sharpness Geurt. I agree on the spots below right.

[Maxis Gamez]

These guys are amazing and they look so powerful. Lovely BG and light but I would like to see the wings up!

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Great flight image with wonderful action and a killer BG. I love the landing gear down in this capture. Beautiful work Geurt.

[Jody Melanson]

Great image! Killer background and sharp as all get out. Too bad about the heavy shade on the right wing....

[Mike Lentz]

Sweet comp and deadly piercing eye! I like it alot!