Avian Image of the Week Pieter de Waal: Sandgrousefor week ending 10/29/2010

[Roman Kurywczak]

Congratulations Pieter de Waal for your image "Sandgrouse" being selected as the Avain Image of the week ending 10/29/2010!!!

1. From my Kgalagadi Transfrontier Trip. I was trying to get a group of these in flight FF. The staggered flight pattern however made this dificult as some birds were OOF. I was able to crop this one to exclude the OOF and half birds and added some canvas on the left for composition.
NR on background about 80% of FF. Beanbag from vehicle.

50D/EF500f4+1.4/f8@1/2500/iso800/EC+0.33

C&C allways welcome.

[Stu Bowie]

Pieter, I liked this the first time I saw it. Congrats on IOTW.

[Jeffrey Sipress]

Clearly deserving! Excellent work.

[Morkel Erasmus]

lovely shot Pieter, and congrats!

[Harshad Barve]

Congratulations Pieter

[Kiran Poonacha]

Beautiful image...

[Nick Palmieri]

Great job!

[Nancy Bell]

Outstanding flight image! Congrats!

[Pieter de Waal]

Apologies for the late acknowledgement, been out in the field, what a nice surprise when I opened the e-mails. Thanks to all at BPN very chuffed and encouraged.

[Steve Maxson]

Congratulations Pieter! Very well done!

[Nate Chappell]

Congrats Pieter, fantastic image!

[philperry]

Way to go Pieter. Well deserved award.

I just need to get out more .............