Last trip to the Osprey nest last weekend.
Everyone is gone, I missed the chicks first flights.
The Last photo I took this year, taken a couple weeks ago.
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It is amazing how quickly we become attached to birds we follow for a while. I have the same attachment with the loons that I follow on and off all summer. Always worry if the chicks will be able to fly well enough to head south before ice in!
Great wing display on the adult, fish good, like the calling pose of juvi. BG is overall good, I might be tempted to darken the highlight right above the top of the back wing.
If it were mine, I might try a version with -.25 exposure and a bit of recovery. The whites are right on the edge on my monitor.
Hopefully you will get to work this nest again next year. Do the same ospreys return year after year to a nest?
Another wonderful osprey shot from you. I see what Randy means about the whites being close to the edge there. Stunning BG. Great behavior and sharpness. TFS!
Great image. I love the open beak on the baby and the wing spread of the adult. I wish we could see the entire chick. Whites already commented on,
Gail
Thanks for the comments,
I agree on the whites although when I try to fix whites in PP, they tone down, but look weird and fake to me.
I do think they are right on the edge, so I pretty much left them alone, unless I get them right in-camera, I find that they look better
if I just leave them alone.
Shooting these guys when they land against the forest BG is tough.
I love Osprey's, by far my favorite raptor, but shooting them from front and back is night and day!
A super pose from the parent with the swept back wing, with oodles of detail and sharp. Good perspective at eye level, and although junior is visible with the open beak, I would maybe have liked to see all of him. Great BG too.