Bald Eagle over Puget Sound

[Terry Olmsted]

Probably should have added - Eye-Level to the title. Taken this morning in rather bright light - always a challenge with these guys.
Essentially full frame - cropped only on the sides.

2/9/2011 Canon 40D 400mm 5.6L 1/1600s f5.6 ISO 250 partial metering ec0 Tv one-shot AF slow burst hand held

[Alan Murphy]

Sweet detail and light. Nice job.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Fantastic IQ and nice light...Eye pops nicely

[Tom Rambaut]

Nice shot of a nice looking bird - this bird is in perfect feather condition.

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Great IQ and flighting pose, they are so similar to our fish eagle and are really great subjects to photograph TFS

[Neil Nourse]

Fantastic shot Terry.

[Craig Brelsford]

I appreciate the details in the head and in most of the blacks--with the exception of the black hole on the left wing. I'm supposing there was no way to coax any detail out of there. The eagle's also about to skim the bottom edge.

[Terry Olmsted]

Thanks all for taking the time to comment, and thanks for the help and encouragement.

Craig, I can try to bring out the dark area of the left wing. Since the image is full frame vertically,
I didn't have much choice framing wise, although I could add some canvas. Thanks for the suggestions.

Terry

[Pieter de Waal]

Nicely captured Terry with full wing spread and great detail.

[Terry Olmsted]

Many thanks, both for looking and commenting, Pieter!

[Todd Frost]

Excellent work here Terry. Nice exposure and detail with good pose. Very well done.
TFS
Todd

[Terry Olmsted]

Thanks very much, Todd!
Terry

[Kiran Poonacha]

Nice IQ, the blues add well to make the bird pop.. nicely done.

[Terry Olmsted]

Thanks very much for commenting, Kiran. I agree, the blue water background really did help. I was lucky
to have a vantage point where I was looking down a bit at the bird - a rare happening for me.
Terry