Gyr Falcon (c)

[Raymond Barlow]

Taken this past weekend at a workshop in Mass.

D300 / 200-400 VR @310 mm
Vertical crop, hand held, natural light
1/2500 sec, f4, iso 320
some cloning of the jessies, and transmiter.

thanks for looking!

[ChasMcRae]

I like the diving wing profile indicating motion. Room in front of bird gives him room to dive, but still may have cropped some off the bottom.
It is a shame he didn't eye you as he did the turn/dive

[Ilija Dukovski]

Now that is one special bird. I like the diving pose a lot, very cool image.
I like the crop and composition, you left plenty of space for the bird to dive to.
Nicely done. Where in Mass? What was the workshop?

[Kiran Poonacha]

beautiful compo, nice pose and details.. congrats..

[arash_hazeghi]

Beautiful Ray, you had lots of fun with these guys!

[Raymond Barlow]

I like the diving wing profile indicating motion. Room in front of bird gives him room to dive, but still may have cropped some off the bottom.
It is a shame he didn't eye you as he did the turn/dive

Thanks for your critique Charles, I am glad it didn't look at me, as that wouldn't look natural, imo... but a slightly different angle would have given me a better look at the eye in the dive position, but that is a difficult thing to control!

take care.

[Raymond Barlow]

Now that is one special bird. I like the diving pose a lot, very cool image.
I like the crop and composition, you left plenty of space for the bird to dive to.
Nicely done. Where in Mass? What was the workshop?

Near Amherst, Mass., and yes., I am looking forward to going back!

Thanks!!

[Jim Crosswell]

Great dive image Ray! Looks like he is lining up for the final approach.