Vulture Landing

[Austin Thomas]

Keeping on the African bird theme, here is a Vulture.

This image was taken as it came into land at a feeding frenzy with fellow vultures just out of the frame.

More images form Kenya 2010 are available HERE

C&C most welcome.

Canon 1DMK4, 300mm, f3.2, 1/2500, ISO200

Cheers

Austin

[Randy Stout]

Austin:

An impressive looking fellow. Love his varied colors, detail in darker feathers on the body with their white trim, feet out, neck extended.

He would have shown a bit better if not against the tree in the BG, but DOF has helped somewhat with isolation from the tree.
Normally the partial merge of head and wing would be less than ideal, but the difference in colors helps with the separation.

Cheers

Randy

[Pieter de Waal]

Wow Austin great landing pose extended talons and neck. I like the background and colour detail and sharpness on the vulture. If it were mine I would lighten the vulture a little to get more detail underwing.Great capture.

What vulture is this.?

[Arthur Morris]

Way cool pose and sharpness. As presented, a crop from the bottom would be in order as there is simply to much plain BKGR below pulling the viewer's eye.

Did you get the next one or two sharp with the bird against the grasses?

[Dudley Watson]

Well captured with great colour and detail

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Very impressive as mentioned already. I love the pose and anticipation of the landing. Your timing is superb mate. Well done. :)

[Ken Watkins]

Austin,

I think this could stand a little lightening, but you know the lighting conditions at the time.

Artie's crop suggestion sounds good to me.

[Stu Bowie]

Austin, separated nicely from the BG, and good show of the underwings. I like the extended neck, and that we can see the left foot nicely. I still need to get one of these in flight.