African Fish Eagle

[Chris van Rooyen]

Another image from one of our trips to the Okavango this year. I found that hand-holding the 500 f/4 can yield great results in situations like these.

Camera Model: NIKON D3
Date/Time: 2009:09:06 08:16:25
Shutter speed: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure mode: Manual
Exposure compensation: -1/3
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Multi-segment
ISO: 500
Lens: 500mm
Focal length: 500mm

[Mike Lentz]

Fantastic image you have here, Chris! The timing with the water splash, the fish in the talon... All set upon a nice colorful BG.

[Ken Watkins]

Chris,

Masterful as always, quite a small fish.

[Ofer Levy]

Fantastic image! Looks perfect to me.

[Randy Stout]

Chris:

Congrats on #1000. Excellent image, the combination of pose, water flying and techs gives it real impact.

Cheers

Randy

[Dan Busby]

Fantastic image Chris. I had to look at it a long time before I could find anything to critique! I was really drawn into this scene, with that immaculate "eagle-eye" grabbing my focus. The one potential shortcoming that I can see is the overlap of the tip of the beak and the primary feather. I think it would be better if there was separation. Perhaps this is only one of a sequence, another of which may provide that separation.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Pretty cool capture. I like the angle, sharpness, eye contact and BG. The fish adds to it. I agree on beak/wing separation.

[denise ippolito]

Beautiful capture and the sharp details are great! Love the water splash and the talons showing. Very nice BG!

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

This is just awesome. Incredible dynamic action. Sharp ,sharp detail and gorgeous color. Everything is spot on. Love this one Chris !!!!!

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

Stunning image Chris!

[arash_hazeghi]

Superb image Chris, love the sharpness and detail, fish is a plus and both flight angle and wing position are perfect! This work is over the top.

[Dave Brown]

Hi Chris,

Outstanding IMO. Great light,perfect colot rendition,really nice job capturing retail under the wings,great HA and the catch with the splash is what might set this image apart from others for me. I agree that if there something that can be improved is gaining some separation between the inner primary on the left wing and the bill. Otherwise magnificent- big congrats!

Dave Brown

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

beautifull action,details!!!

[Jan Fourie]

very nice shot chris with great posture,sharpness,eye contact and light
vwd
jan

[Juan Aragonés]

Images like this one are a good reason for planning a travel to SA Chris. Fantastic timming, very good light angle, composition and sharpness.
Congratulations for the 1000th post :-)

[Chris van Rooyen]

Thanks everyone for the comments - and pointing out the 1000th post!

[Nate Chappell]

Fantastic, love those talons with the fish!

[Desmond Chan]

This is simply a great image ! Agree to comments above.

[Glenn Bartley]

You are the man!!! This is insane!

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

Awesome Chris, thanks for sharing

[Harshad Barve]

Spectacular is the word Chris and congrats on 1000th ,
TFS

[Kiran Poonacha]

Just wanted to add to the above.. I loved this too.. congrats..