We just returned last night from a 5 1/2 day camping/photo trip to sw Montana. It was simply an awesome journey with mostly great weather and light, lots of wildlife and birds (especially raptors), spectacular scenery, interesting characters and no significant mishaps but now the piper must be paid. I have an endless list of chores to catch up on which includes unpacking, washing gobs of dried mud and cow poop off of my pickup and camping trailer and then culling thousands of new images and processing the keepers.
So, for obvious reasons this will be a short post.
1/2000. f/5.6, ISO 640, 500 f/4, 1.4 tc
This image was taken last Thursday morning in Beaverhead County, Montana. Lots of factors have to play out to get a nice image of a bird taking off and for this shot I was able to get many of them right but I was missing an attractive, natural perch. In this case it was an ugly power pole insulator and wire so I decided to clone them out. I’m a very reluctant cloner but when I just can’t resist the temptation I always disclose.
Because of the trip I’ve been slow in posting and commenting on other blogs. I’ll remedy both shortcomings in the near future.
Ron
A classic Tail at full extension- stellar shot Ron.
Why sort through thousands of images when there’s probably only a handful of mediocre (by your standards) ones on the card? Keep ’em all! It’s only hoarding when it’s cats or old TV Guides… 😀
Stunning photo!! I don’t give a hoot that it is “cloned” – I’ve never seen that word used before! It looks perfect, thanks for posting.
Glad you had a great trip and am looking forward to more posts and photos!
An absolutely beautiful and striking shot… Such a magnificent raptor.
I agree Christina – they’re a very common raptor but they are also magnificent.
Oooh and aaaah. Thank you. Your red-tailed hawk is a beautiful bird.
Thanks Elephant’s Child.
Glad you are back and had a great time. Will look forward to more of your amazing work.
I am and I did Bob. Thanks for the nice words.