Just A Shot That I Like… #21 – Red-tailed Hawk In Dramatic Light

Strongly directional light can be a blessing or a curse and all too often it’s the latter.  It makes proper exposure a challenge because it’s very easy to blow the highlights and/or have shadows so deep that there’s no detail there at all.  But when things work out the effect can be appealing and dramatic.   

 

 1/2000, f/6.3, [...]

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Red-tailed Hawk with Long-billed Hawk Syndrome

This morning I found this Red-tailed Hawk on a telephone pole near Grantsville, Utah.  As soon as I looked at it through my lens I knew that something was wrong with the birds beak. 

 

A bit of research almost immediately turned up the probable culprit – Long-billed Hawk Syndrome.  Birds with this condition have atypical uncontrolled [...]

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