Martial Eagle

[Ken Watkins]

After yesterday's fiasco here is what I hope is a Martial Eagle, taken inKwndo concession, Botswana 2nd July 2009.

EOS 1D MkIII

500mm F4 IS from open game viewing vehicle

F7.1, ISO 800, 1/2500, EV +0.33

[Mike Landwehr]

I like the feeling of wide open spaces I get from this crop. Nice exposure, and I like the feather detail on the beautiful, speckled breast. I'd like to see the head turned a bit toward you, so we could get a better look at that beautiful, yellow eye!

[Stuart Hill]

Love the detail in the breast feathers. I too would have liked a different h/a but looking directly at you. As you've shot from below it would have given us, the viewer, a sense of this great bird glaring down on us, empowering the bird. Love those talons too!

regards.
Stu.

[Ken Watkins]

Mike and Stuart,

In the entire sighting I got only one head on and he was blinking