Crested Caracara

[Alan Murphy]

Crested Caracara

San Antonio, TX

D3, 600, ISO 1250, f8, 1/4000.

While I was scouting new locations for hosting my workshops, I played around with these guys a little.

[Keith Bauer]

Great wing spread and the top side view (mostly) is very nice. The little head turn back makes this work well for me with the nice BG.

[Steve Maxson]

Excellent pose, sharpness, and background, Alan. The exposure looks perfect with good detail in both blacks and whites. IMO, the imperfections in the wing tips gives the image character. Well done.

[Alfred Forns]

Mighty fine Murph !!! Got to love the layout position but for me the sharp to the end of the wing makes it, having all that shutter speed made the difference !!! Big Congrats !!!

[Ted Willcox]

Beautiful flight image, love the spread and angle of the tail, neat wing spread, nice to see the legs and talons exposed, great eye contact, all this and a lovely bg.
Ted

[LouBuonomo]

I like the gear down... Keep scouting !

Lou

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Alan...spectacular capture as usual. Unique wingspread for a unique bird. And excellent head angle. Nothing to suggest here. hats off!

[Ed Schneider]

Most amazing CRCA in-flight ever!!! Bravo, Alan, hope I can make one of your workshops someday:)

[arash_hazeghi]

Awesome shot Alan, love the wing position, BG and details. Congrats

[Nagesh Mula]

Wow, this is beautiful. Nice wing spread and head angle. Congrats!!

[Peter Coskun]

This is stunning, great flight shot and got to love that eye contact. I would love to see one of these in the wild sometime

[Mike Lentz]

Wondeful eye contact and wing position! All in all fantastic.
Is that a large sized crop circle remnant in the upper left hand corner?

[Alan Murphy]

Wondeful eye contact and wing position! All in all fantastic.
Is that a large sized crop circle remnant in the upper left hand corner?

Hey Mike, no crop circles in the field that was the BG ;-)

Not sure what you mean, but the image has about 35% cropped off.

[Mike Lentz]

Must be my subpar work monitor. :)
It just looked like a harder brushes outter edge was maybe left behind. The bottom of it is near the "Houston, TX" signature and goes out and up to the top of the image. I need to look at this at home, now I'm wondering what I'm seeing.:)