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<\/p>\nIt’s unusual for me to struggle with the composition of my images but these Turkey Vulture photos are an exception.<\/p>\n
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1\/500, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I photographed the vulture in Box Elder County yesterday morning just after sunrise so the light is very warm. It has a stray white\u00a0feather above its left foot that makes me smile because to my eye it almost looks like an inverted belly button. Typical of the species its feet are stained white\u00a0by its own droppings. These birds deliberately defecate on their own feet and legs for reason’s I’ve covered here<\/a>.<\/p>\n I have a soft spot for\u00a0photos of birds perched on old rustic logs or\u00a0wooden fences (this log\u00a0is part of a corral)\u00a0and these images are no exception. For me they have an “old west” feel (especially when the bird is a vulture)\u00a0that I like but there’s another wooden pole below the one we can see in this image so I’ve struggled with their composition. In this version I like the bird placed to the right in the frame and looking down the length of the\u00a0log. But we can’t see the log out of frame at bottom and since I know it’s there I miss seeing\u00a0it…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/500, f\/8, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Here’s another composition of the same bird in a different but similar pose that includes the second log. I like this one too but cannot decide which one I prefer and while pondering the question I began to wonder if my readers might have a preference. So I decided to present them both and hope for some feedback. If you prefer one composition over the other I’d be interested in knowing which one.<\/p>\n By the way, if anyone’s wondering what happened to that white feather in the second image, it’s there. Do you see it?<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s unusual for me to struggle with the composition of my images but these Turkey Vulture photos are an exception.<\/p>\n![\"turkey](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/turkey-vulture-2746-ron-dudley.jpg\")
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