1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\nJust over a year ago I photographed this Golden Eagle soon after it took off from a power pole in Box Elder County. I couldn’t ask any more from the flight posture, I got a perfect head turn with eye contact and I love the warm morning light on the bird. The darker underwing coverts of the left wing almost look like they’re the shadow of the right wing as the light tries to\u00a0pass through but of course that’s not the case. The sun was behind me and those feathers are just darker than the rest of the wing.<\/p>\n
I’ve never posted this photo before because… well,\u00a0the original\u00a0has significant faults we don’t see here.<\/p>\n
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I had to clone to get the previous version as\u00a0I presented it\u00a0and I had to do it twice. I removed the wire up top and added canvas to the left so the bird has a little more room to fly into and isn’t so centered in the frame. Two sins in the same shot and I’m not happy about it.<\/p>\n
But this photo kept nagging at me. I’d never even opened it in the past because of the previously\u00a0mentioned problems that were obvious in the\u00a0thumbnail\u00a0but last night I finally processed it, including wire and insufficient canvas, just to see what\u00a0the eagle\u00a0would look like. After going that far I was hooked and proceeded to do the dirty deed of double cloning.<\/p>\n
I should have known better than to even open it. Golden Eagles are sirens for me, in the Greek mythology sense.<\/p>\n
I have mixed feelings about\u00a0seeing what\u00a0could have been but\u00a0the cloned version\u00a0motivates me to keep trying, even when they’re on power poles.\u00a0In the past\u00a0I’ve\u00a0sometimes\u00a0passed them up on perches like that so maybe this seduction was a good thing in the long run.<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
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