[Leica] Eagles at Otter Bay

[ric at cartersxrd.net (RicCarter)]

over water and turning are my favorites

ric


On Jul 16, 2014, at 11:56 PM, H&E Cummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

> Hi Luggers,
> I have not posted pictures to the LUG for a few weeks - grand parenting 
> duties with Aubrey, aka "Hank the Tank", and
> several house guests have kept me and Esther extra busy.Still, the 
> pictures have been accumulating
> and I thought I would open a new Eagle 2014 Folder to show a few of my 
> better ones.
> These were all taken with the Nikon D800E and the 80 - 400 VR zoom lens - 
> hand held -
> processed in CS 6. Last week we have a fellow photographer visiting and I 
> took him
> down to the Otter Bay ferry terminal to feed and photograph the eagles. 
> The birds' reaction
> was unusual. They came when whistled for, but they only circled the salmon 
> strips and
> did not swoop in to snatch them up. The only variable from the ordinary 
> was the
> presence of my visitor and I guess his being there made the eagles more 
> cautious.
> The circling made for some fine photo opportunities.
> 
> First an eagle fly by over water:
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Eagles2014/1410.jpg.html>
> 
> and then against the forest background:
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Eagles2014/1310.jpg.html>
> 
> Flying in to inspect the salmon strips:
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Eagles2014/1146.jpg.html>
> 
> Turning just over my head:
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Eagles2014/_DSC1172.jpg.html>
> 
> And swooshing by:
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Eagles2014/_DSC1175.jpg.html>
> 
> For the last two photos I racked the lens back to 185mm but it wasn't far 
> enough
> to have the full body of the eagle in the frame. These last two photos are 
> full frame - no cropping.
> 
> I have just taken delivery of a used, but not abused, Nikon D4 body and I 
> hope that
> my focus success rate will go up with this 10fps pro body compared to the 
> 5fps D800E. 
> 
> Stay tuned.
> 
> Howard (on hot sunny dry Pender Island).
> 
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