Tawny Eagle

[Ken Watkins]

Taken in Khwai Community Reserve, Botswana, 3rd May 2010

EOS 1D MkIV

500mm F4 IS hand-held from vehicle

F5.6, ISO 800, 1/8000 (dear me)

[christopher galeski]

nice one Ken,like the head turn,nice detail,thanks.

[Ivan Sjögren]

Like this one. The head turn make the pose work, other wise you would like it flying towards you. Nice light and details, love the claws.

[Marc Mol]

Agree with above comments, that banking turn look, very nice. Any chance of a less square crop Ken?
TFS

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks for the comments, I just thought it was an odd pose, without the "look back" it would have been straight in the recycle bin.

Marc,

You know me, I can never decide on crops, I have plenty of room, but could not decide where the "fly into" space should be, let me know what you tink.

[Ivan Sjögren]

If you do an other crop I think you should make it vertical. Or like this but you put some more room to the left then you avoid the image to fell square.