Ospery Landing

[Sid Garige]

March 2009, Blue Cypress lake
D300, 200-400mm VR F8 1/3200 ISO 640

[Morkel Erasmus]

marvellous capture Sid! love the wingspread, intense stare, exposure and composition.

[Harshad Barve]

Excellent pose , details , expo and sharpness , If mine I may crop sliver from bottom and add some space in top
TFS

[Paul Randall]

Fantastic Sid. Awesome full wing extension and wide open talons. Feels like it could be improved by having a touch more of the perch in it. :)
Congrats on 1200 post as well!!!

[Sid Garige]

Feels like it could be improved by having a touch more of the perch in it. :)
Congrats on 1200 post as well!!!

You are right about the perch. I should have zoomed out a little more.

Thanks
Sid

[Kiran Poonacha]

great timing Sid, loved the blue Bg, details and light here, congrats..

[paul leverington]

Fantastic job in catching the moment! A closer in crop of this might work well too if you have the pixels. Quite dramatic.

Paul

[Mital Patel]

brilliant capture this is. nice wing details and pose with the sharp perch make this beautiful. not sure bout the square crop as personally i dont like it and also a border. (my personal choice) may it look good to others.

[arash_hazeghi]

Excellent landing shot Sid, love it as presented although I agree with not having a border.

[Randy Stout]

Sid:

Nicely captured with great timing. I like the tail being cocked up to aid in the landing.

I do think a slightly looser crop with more perch would be interesting. I know you don't have it, but just from a composition standpoint, it might have been fun. I suspect this was shot in landscape orientation and then cropped to current shape?

Nicely done!

Randy

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Very nice image buddy.
Love the talons and eye stare. This perch could go a little darker.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Perch and pose could've not been any better IMO :D
Stunning! Love this species! Congratulitons!

[Nancy A Elwood]

Sid I must make it to Blue Cypress this next season. This is a fine capture and I just love the talons as they are about to crasp the perch!! Great stuff!!

[Sid Garige]

Sid:

Nicely captured with great timing. I like the tail being cocked up to aid in the landing.

I do think a slightly looser crop with more perch would be interesting. I know you don't have it, but just from a composition standpoint, it might have been fun. I suspect this was shot in landscape orientation and then cropped to current shape?

Nicely done!

Randy

Randy,

Agree with you on more perch. Hopefully next year I will try to make one.
I shot this image in landscape orientation and cropped to current shape.

Thanks
Sid