Vulture on Giraffe carcass

[Dumay de Boulle]

Canon 1D MKIII
Canon 100-400 L IS @ 400mm
AV f6.3
TV 1/1250
Exp +0.33
ISO 800
AWB
RAW file processed in CS5 iMac

Crits appreciated

[Tom Rambaut]

Love the flies and the second OOF vulture looking over the carcass. Like the feather detail and light. Super sharp. May lighten the BG black spots a bit.

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent shot Dumay, love the details and sweet light!

[Ken Watkins]

Dumay,

This is a beauty, presumably the Giraffe carcass had been there sometime judging by the "whitewash".

The look is of total innocence

[Gerald Kelberg]

Great shot Dumay - terrific pose of the vulture, perfect light and details. The mess on the carcass and the flies really give a powerful touch of reality - I hope you kept up-wind.

Ken - I would be very worried if that look passed for "total innocence"! They must be pretty hard down around Greyton!

[Randy Stout]

Dumay:

I think it all came together here. The flies, white wash, second bird. This one struck me on a visceral level, that a giant creature like a giraffe, in the end is nothing more than a perch and meal for the scavengers.

I must getting too old, feeling my own mortality a bit.

Impact in a photo trumps all else. Well captured.

Randy

[Ken Watkins]

Gerald,

Whilst I agree that normally Vultures can look quite threatening, I felt that this one had a air of what me?

Randy,

"Impact in a photo trumps all else", my feelings entirely

[Ofer Levy]

Strong image!

[Steve Kaluski]

Echo all your thoughts Randy, a cracking image, well seen & executed Dumay.

TFS
Steve

[Stu Bowie]

Exquisite light mate, and just love the overall detail and sharpness. The colours of both the BG and giraffe compliment each other. Well captured.

[Chris Kotze]

Nice one Dumay Super light detail and colours.

[Robert Holguin]

Excellent shot. As stated already very powerful image. Wonderful light and great pose.
Well done.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Lots going on here, and I mean that in a very good way. Quite a powerful image. I'd only tone down the darkest area of the BG. Two thumbs up from me!!

[Sidharth Kodikal]

A powerful, story-telling image. I love it, Dumay. A definite winner.

[Harshad Barve]

Terrific image here
TFS

[Jacques de Klerk]

Super IQ and love the stare of the oof vulture in BG

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

This image tells a great story, sad as it is. I like that you left the on looking oof bird in the image almost like he's waiting his turn.. The flys and bird droppings show well that this is a carcas that has been down for a bit. Great Image

[Raul Padilla]

great image, all the history is in this