Gimogene

[Ken Watkins]

Taken at Rhino Island Lodge, Matusadona National Park, Zimbabwe, 13th June 2009

EOS 1D MkIII

500mm F4 IS hand-held
F8, ISO 400, 1/2000

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

magic light and beautiful pose,I wish for a better head angle!

[Jay Gould]

Ken, the bird is so - I am searching for the right word - that it looks like it is carved and colored from the same piece of wood as the perch. I think it is a wonderful capture. Good show.

[Randy Stout]

Ken:

Lovely light, exposure,pose.

HA mentioned, and in a perfect world, a lower shooting angle would be nice.

Thanks for sharing this beauty.

Randy

[Markus Jais]

great shot. wonderful wing pose. A shooting position a little more to the right so that the bird would be 100% parallel to the sensor would have been nice but this is wonderful as it is.

Markus

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks to everyone, just to explain that we were on a drifting motor boat so I had little if any control of the angles.

[Loukie Viljoen]

Ken Gymnogene now = African Harrier-Hawk but still a very good capture they don't wait around to have a photo taken.

[David Fletcher]

Fine shot, all the more so from a boat. Nice one Ken.

[Chris van Rooyen]

Nice light and good sharpness - the angle is a bit steep for my liking.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Great species, great light, great pose, great perch and comp, too sad the angle didn't help, I agree with Chris.

[Gal Shon]

Apart from the very low shooting angle, I like it.
A beautiful bird.

[Ken Watkins]

Loukie,
Sorry for the incorrect spelling of the old name, personally I never like to use the "revised" names.

Chris/Ramon
Just out of interest would this have been better if taken from further away thereby making the upward angle shallower?