{"id":144451,"date":"2023-10-08T06:25:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T12:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=144451"},"modified":"2023-10-08T07:07:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T13:07:12","slug":"golden-eagle-sideways-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/08\/golden-eagle-sideways-takeoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Eagle Sideways Takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A golden oldie, in more ways than one.<\/p>\n<p>Usually when I post “older photos” they’re new to Feathered Photography. Today’s photo is an exception. It was taken almost four years ago and I posted it back then but looking back I’m not happy with the way I processed it. So I’ve reprocessed it (different selective exposures, different aspect ratio and different sharpening technique) and I’m publishing it again as a “golden oldie” of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>I’ll admit that the timing of this ‘rerun’ has everything to do with the fact that this is opening weekend for Utah’s waterfowl hunt so I’ve been hunkering down at home for a few days and not getting any new photos. The last thing I want to do is be in the marshes with hordes of excited hunters, airboats, barking hunting dogs and all their associated hubbub. I’m too old and stove up to be dodging shotgun pellets.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/golden-eagle-7405-ron-dudley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"144452\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/08\/golden-eagle-sideways-takeoff\/golden-eagle-7405-ron-dudley-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/golden-eagle-7405-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"Ron Dudley","camera":"Canon EOS 7D Mark II","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1581589032","copyright":"","focal_length":"321","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"0.00025","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"golden eagle 7405 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/golden-eagle-7405-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/golden-eagle-7405-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-144452 size-full\" title=\"golden-eagle-7405-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/golden-eagle-7405-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/golden-eagle-7405-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/golden-eagle-7405-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/golden-eagle-7405-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/golden-eagle-7405-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 400, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @ 321mm, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I found this presumed female (she was huge) Golden Eagle in a tree at Bear River MBR and for a while she was unusually relaxed – especially for a Golden. But when another photographer showed up in his bright blue Subaru Impreza and then g<em>ot out of his car!<\/em> to photograph her, she sure as hell wasn’t going to put up with that so she took off.<\/p>\n<p>I love her unusual sideways takeoff posture. I strongly believe she launched at this angle so she could avoid hitting that largest vertical branch with her right wing. The result was a dynamic takeoff that featured her huge, stout feet and talons, golden mane and intense stare. Thankfully she had pretty good light on her and she’s sharp.<\/p>\n<p>I’m glad I reprocessed the photo. Hopefully, long time blog followers don’t mind seeing it again.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A golden oldie, in more ways than one.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/08\/golden-eagle-sideways-takeoff\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[338,334,642],"tags":[643,49,7173,146,7171,311,7172],"class_list":["post-144451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge-favorite-locations","category-birds","category-golden-eagles","tag-aquila-chrysaetos","tag-bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge","tag-female-golden-eagle","tag-flight","tag-sideways-takeoff","tag-utah-2","tag-utah-waterfowl-hunting-season"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/golden-eagle-7405-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-BzR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144451"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144483,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144451\/revisions\/144483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}