Time to go

[Stu Bowie]

Another image from the Pilanesberg National Park taken a few weekends ago. This is the same male Giant Kingfisher posted a little while ago. The BG is a distant mountain, and one has to position yourself so as to have all of the mountain in your frame as a BG. Moving to the right, and you would have half sky and half mountain. Gotta love the BG's at this location. Interesting, my recent Red Eyed Dove posted recently http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...ead.php/141768 has the same mountain BG, which was captured just after sunrise. This image was captured nearly an hour and a half later. Notice the difference of the colour of the mountain due to different light.

Canon 1D Mark IV
Canon 300mm F/2.8 +2X TC = 600mm
1/2000
F/7.1
ISO 1000

Hand held from a walkway constructed over a dam.