Osprey with catch

[Tony Whitehead]

An image from our trip to Queensland last year - still catching up on processing!
Captured late in the day against a dark clouded sky and an approaching storm. After 2 attempts to get up to it's nest the bird gave up and started eating the fish on a lower perch.
Nikon D700
Nikon 500 f4 + 1.4
1/2000s f5.6 ISO 1600
Matrix +1.67

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Tony, I know how you like your high key effect, and this has turned out very well. Good flying posture, and I like the wingspread. Thats a fair size catch the Osprey has caught. Cheers.

[Colin Driscoll]

Excellent shot Tony, good colour and detail across the whole bird. Looks like a Pike that it has caught.

[Tony Whitehead]

Excellent shot Tony, good colour and detail across the whole bird. Looks like a Pike that it has caught.

Thanks Colin. It was a marine fish - Barracuda (Seapike) I think.

[Randy Stout]

Tony:

Good to see you posting.

Soft light gave nice even illumination with good underwing detail.

Impressive fish, also like the head without wing merge.

Cheers

Randy

[Charles Scheffold]

You can see the teeth on that fish! Nice high key background and mouth-open pose. I also like the way the overcast sky backlights the tailfeathers.

Charles

[Pieter de Waal]

Wow excellent image Tony, love the detail, light and posture of the Osprey. Nice catch (fish) with the touch of red adding the final touch.

[Morkel Erasmus]

you exposed it well with nice detail and I dig the high-key effect here Tony...predatory fish meets its match
what was it that Quaigon Jinn said in Episode 1 of Star Wars? "There's always a bigger fish"...nearly apt in this case ;)

[DanWalters]

Great action! Like the pike and the hi-key background.