Cape Vulture

[Hendri Venter]

Captured this at Giants Castle, Drankensberg, SA last month. White-necked Ravens on each side of the Vulture.



Canon ID MK III
Canon 500 F4+ 1.4 TC
Aperture Priority
F8
ISO 800
SS 3200
Exp -0.3

[Kiran Poonacha]

WOW what a setting this, you could do a story on this.. say "the king and two soldiers".. loved the moment captured...

[Lorant Voros]

Amazing setting, very majestic look with this pose and the two bird "solders" on the side. I love the colors too. Well done.
Lorant

[Ofer Levy]

An impressive shot!! Great light and fantastic landing pose. I also like the two crows.

[Randy Stout]

Hendri:

I thought of a large plane landing with a couple of crew men signaling him in. Strong visual impact, nice techs too.
Very well seen and captured.

Cheers

Randy

[Steve Kaluski]

A good capture Hendri, like the comp very much.

Wings can be deceptive, but is there a sharpening halo under the wings, or is it an old set of eyes?

TFS
Steve

[Michael Zajac]

Nice background colors.Excellent landing pose and sharpness.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice scene captured here. The two crows add alot to the story of opportunist species competing for food. I like the landing pose of the vulture, as well as the shadow of its feet on the rock. I'd prefer the OOF FG not be there, but looks like there was not much to do to avoid that for this particular image, short of getting higher and risk spooking the subjects away. Very enjoyable to view!

[Stu Bowie]

Great symmetry with a raven under each wing, and both with similar poses. I like the landing posture, showing the detail of the neck and shoulders. Of course, another fantastic GC BG. Glad you guys had fun there, and sorry I couldnt have joined you mate.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I also like the symmetry and incoming pose, the BG complements it nicely. I might try to lighten the underwings a bit.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Wow Hendri awesome timing and I love the landing pose. Really captured in beautiful lighting with excellent detail. Like this a lot.

[Danny J Brown]

Whoa, dude...monster bird you caught here. Brings to mind "Image of the Year" last year. Fantastic catch.

DB

[James Salywoda]

Incredible image Hendri awesome composition. Congrats!

[Hendri Venter]

Thanks Ladies and Gents. I appreciate your kind comments.

Taken from a hide Daniel - so not much I could do with the OOF FG

I trust that "old set of eyes" Steve and will revisit the orig.:)

[Fabs Forns]

How about these body guards, huh?
Pretty incredible image. Good wingspan display and great EXP. Congrats!

[Chris van Rooyen]

:) Great light and great use of DOF. You were lucky to get them in good light!

[Nico Steenberg]

This is great. IMG is sharp and well exposed with good colours !!

[Hendri Venter]

Thanks Fabs, Chris and Nico. Yes we were lucky with the CV's but not so with the BV's Chris.