adolescent harrier

[arash_hazeghi]

I have been fortunate enough to see a variety of harriers on CA coast, the juveniles birds have a ark molt and soft feathers after fledging, the females have dark brown eyes. As they get older the under-wings brighten up and the pupil becomes bright yellow in a full grown adult. This is an adolescent female, you can see the feathers have started to have distinct definition/pattern especially around the neck area and the eye is a orangish yellow. Hope you like this frame



D5 and 600E FL +TC14E-III ISO 800 f/5.6 at 1/3200 sec. hand held and processed with C1P

[David Roach]

Love the top view, HA(slight look back), sweet light, soft BG, feather detail, that eye and the information. Wish there was not the slightly bright spots in the BG. TFS

[sasan nejadi]

beautiful shot , i like wing pose and light and BG.....TFS

[Ivan Sjogren]

Another stunning capture Arash! I love that there is a bit of dept in the out of focus BG. The light is superb and so are the details and the eye contact. Nice vertical comp and great pose. I do agree that the bright spot behind the bird is a bit distracting, what is it?

[annmpacheco]

Another beauty Arash, BG is terrific, love the light, HA, and such detail...

[arash_hazeghi]

Another stunning capture Arash! I love that there is a bit of dept in the out of focus BG. The light is superb and so are the details and the eye contact. Nice vertical comp and great pose. I do agree that the bright spot behind the bird is a bit distracting, what is it?

Hi Ivan those are some dry bushes, I will clone it out in post it should be easy

thanks everyone

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Great capture of this juvenile with complete dorsal feather detail, Arash. Like the background as well.

Geoffrey




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[John Mack]

Killer dorsal view. Nice light and a nice pose.

[Anthony Barsotti]

Awesome shot, I agree that the only distracting element for me is the spot behind, just adds a sort of halo effect to it almost. Other than that another solid capture.

[David Salem]

Great shot buddy! Love the detail in the face and the exposure and colors look sweet. You had a **** good Harrier run this year. Bet you are glad you had your new gear

[Dumay de Boulle]

Perfect HA, perfect wing position, perfect BG, perfect light...Great image.

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks again everyone I blended in the bright spots a bit

[arash_hazeghi]

Great shot buddy! Love the detail in the face and the exposure and colors look sweet. You had a **** good Harrier run this year. Bet you are glad you had your new gear

Totally man, I have to say in about 2 months of shooting the harriers with Nikon I came up with as many keepers that I had come up with my Canon gear over a decade...that is a difference!

[Alex Becker]

Beautiful shot. Love the pose and BG. RP is great, but I was okay with the OP as well. Nice details. I'm not sure I've seen this transitional plumage before. I may be tempted to blur / smooth the 'rougher' bit in the lower right corner, but minor thing. TFS

[arash_hazeghi]

Beautiful shot. Love the pose and BG. RP is great, but I was okay with the OP as well. Nice details. I'm not sure I've seen this transitional plumage before. I may be tempted to blur / smooth the 'rougher' bit in the lower right corner, but minor thing. TFS

Thanks Alex, I thought about that too, on the larger version on my 4K screen I have more of the bottom and the foreground bushes there give more depth to the image so I kept it as is when I cropped tighter for online presentation.

cheers

[Arthur Morris]

Killer. Repost is better. May we assume that this is from a horizontal original? with love, artie

[arash_hazeghi]

Hi Artie yes croped from horizontal