By now readers must know how much I like this particular takeoff posture in raptors. For me images like this are full of tension and energy and my mind’s eye wanders as I try to imagine the details of what happened next.
I still don’t have my ideal Golden Eagle flight photo but I’m getting significantly closer.
Yesterday I was once again impressed by how well using a vehicle as a mobile blind works when compared to shooting on foot.
I’ve photographed a lot of Red-tailed Hawks recently and the streak continued yesterday morning near the north end of Utah’s Promontory Mountains.
Normally I’m not fond of cutesy little names for birds but this one fits the species so very well it just keeps popping into my head when I see them.
It’s hard enough to get a single sharp shot of a landing raptor but nine days ago I captured an entire series of them near Montana’s Centennial Valley.
As viewers we almost never know what it really took for the photographer to get that shot we like so much.
Magpies along with many other birds have been relatively scarce on Antelope Island since the wildfire in July.
Some Red-tailed Hawks become quite tolerant of human activities but for me this one stood out.
I’ve been waiting for the new edition of this book for a very long time. The second edition has been out of print for years and even used copies have been very difficult to come by.
It’s been over three years since I’ve been able to closely approach a Prairie Falcon in the Centennial Valley but yesterday it finally happened again.
These aren’t serious images, in fact I’d probably categorize them as novelty photos. But I still find them visually interesting and somehow they seem appropriate for Saturday morning.
Part of the reason I like the photo is because we don’t see many shots of landing raptors.
