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<\/p>\nA lighting effect I almost never get on a raptor. Or any other bird for that matter.<\/p>\n
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1\/2000, f\/5.6, ISO 640, Canon 7D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n This is an older photo of a young Prairie Falcon along the causeway to Antelope Island. It was early morning and when I first got the bird in my viewfinder it was completely in the shadow cast by the raised causeway road so I had to wait for the light to reach the falcon and hope it didn’t take off in the meantime. Thankfully the early morning December cold made the bird less prone to fly so I got the shots I was after. Here at least some of the light has reached the entire bird except for its tail and wingtips.<\/p>\n I like the spotlight effect on the falcon with shadow below it and the relatively dark water of the Great Salt Lake in the background. Long ago I posted another photo of this bird taken from a different position that placed the abrupt shadow boundary in the lower background in a different position behind and below the falcon’s neck. I didn’t appreciate that shadow boundary intersecting the bird so I like this photo better.<\/p>\n To be honest I thought I’d already posted this shot but I was wrong. Perhaps it was one of the thumbnails in the rotating banner I used to have at the top of my blog.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Addendum on a completely unrelated matter: <\/em><\/p>\n I’m the cook around here and last night pork chops and ham fried rice were on the menu. I like to think of myself as a more than competent cook but last night I made the worst cooking mistake of my life and I’ve made a few.<\/em><\/p>\n I used Worcestershire sauce (3 Tablespoons of the damn stuff) instead of soy sauce in the fried rice! Didn’t notice my mistake until I was ready to serve so we tried to eat it anyway. Still can’t get that taste out of my mouth. I don’t know WHY they put both dark sauces that look very similar in bottles of almost the same shape (Kikkoman and Lea and Perrins).<\/em><\/p>\n