lens caddy<\/a><\/span><\/span>. A Golden Eagle flying by close to me while I had my proverbial pants down would be my version of the ultimate frustration.<\/p>\nShe waited until I got my pickup stopped but just barely- she launched a split second before I was able to raise my lens and lock focus on her. Thankfully I got her in focus very soon after she took off.<\/p>\n
She flew along the top of the ridgeline for long enough to allow me to get 47 shots of her in flight and many of them were sharp or sharp enough, with no clipped or cut off body parts. This is one of my favorites, in part because it includes some of the sagebrush directly below her. In many of my photos of her I had nothing but blue sky in the background.<\/p>\n
I count myself lucky if I get a single quality photo of a Golden Eagle once per year so to get that many flight shots I like after being confined at home for so long was a thrill. And yes, assuming I remember how to cull and process photos, you’re likely to see more of them sometime soon.<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
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It’s been a while, a long while, but yesterday morning I finally got back into the field again. An adult Golden Eagle in flight was one of my rewards.<\/p>\n
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