Avian Wild and Free IOTW 11/20/2008 Geurt Bloem

[Alfred Forns]

Congratulation to Geurt Bloem
Bearded Vulture- Gaints Castle

I have not uploaded for a while and delved into the archives for this one.
This is a bearded vulture doing a fly-by up close and personal. Image is full framed.

Stats
Canon 1D MIII with 600mm plus 1.4TC
ISO 400
Tv 1/1600
Av f8

Thanks for looking.

[Pepe Reigada]

Well deserved! Congratualtions

[Kaushik Balakumar]

Congrats Geurt !
Very well deserved indeed.

[Ed Cordes]

Talk about great eye contact! Super image, congratulations!!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Congratulations, well deserved!

[Gus Cobos]

Congratulations Geurt...:cool:

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Congratulations Geurt, love the eye and the framing!

[Ed Grella]

Fantastic!!

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Congratulation!!!

[Julie Kenward]

Incredible image! What a great stare...

[Doug Brown]

Love that stare! Congrats Geurt!

[Geurt Bloem]

As PM-ed to Alfred, a huge honour for me and thank you to everyone for this.

[Lana Hays]

Congrats, Geurt......what an awesome up close view.

[Robert Amoruso]

A very intense stare. Congrats on the win.

[Stephen Earle]

Hey Geurt, I missed this one. Congratulations!