eagle flight shots

HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
edited March 17, 2006 in Wildlife
Hi y'all,

Just a few eagle flight shots

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59380168-O.jpg

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sometimes they get too dang close
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Harry
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  • ThusieThusie Registered Users Posts: 1,818 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2006
    clap.gifclapclap.gif Really like #2 & #3.


    Kestrels the CUTE raptor
  • Osprey WhispererOsprey Whisperer Registered Users Posts: 3,803 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2006
    Excellent stuff "old man". thumb.gifthumb.gif I'm just wondering if you've been eating pineapple pizza? ne_nau.gifheadscratch.gif Reason being..there is a shot with the wings clipped. rolleyes1.gif
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2006
    harry i have a ?? did you on 2 & 3 lighten up under the wings --do something headscratch.gif
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2006
    Thusie wrote:
    clap.gifclapclap.gif Really like #2 & #3.


    Kestrels the CUTE raptor

    Thanks Thusie. The kestrel's prey find nothing cute about that mean little piece of work. :D
    Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2006
    Bird Man Photographer wrote:
    Excellent stuff "old man". thumb.gifthumb.gif I'm just wondering if you've been eating pineapple pizza? ne_nau.gifheadscratch.gif Reason being..there is a shot with the wings clipped. rolleyes1.gif

    Thanks Mike. No pineapple pizza just one of the hazads of shooting with a prime lens. If I zoomed out with my feet any more on that shot I would have fallen off the hill.
    Harry
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  • RohirrimRohirrim Registered Users Posts: 1,889 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2006
    Cool series Harry thumb.gif
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  • ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2006
    Harryb wrote:

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    I love this shot, Harry. I know it's not as crisp as most of yours usually are (heavy crop? or maybe panning?), but the pose and framing are great. The wing tips spread and his serious expression looks like he means business. Makes me want to fly along... thumb.gif
    Chris
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2006
    jwear wrote:
    harry i have a ?? did you on 2 & 3 lighten up under the wings --do something headscratch.gif

    On #2 I did some post work to bring out the shadow detail
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,952 moderator
    edited March 12, 2006
    Hey Andy, I think Harry was holding out on us...

    Nice shots!
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  • DanielBDanielB Registered Users Posts: 2,362 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2006
    i really like #2thumb.gif sweet shots harry.
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  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2006
    The "clipped wing" shot is the one I like best! thumb.gif

    Now, would you go back and get that same shot with a fish in his clutches?!? rolleyes1.gif

    As always, IMO, there are no bad Baldy shots.....:D
  • CookieSCookieS Registered Users Posts: 854 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2006
    Wonderful, must be special to have such great birds inyour area. I only see one now and then here ( a few hours north of you)
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2006
    Rohirrim wrote:
    Cool series Harry thumb.gif

    Thanks Steve
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 13, 2006
    ChrisJ wrote:
    I love this shot, Harry. I know it's not as crisp as most of yours usually are (heavy crop? or maybe panning?), but the pose and framing are great. The wing tips spread and his serious expression looks like he means business. Makes me want to fly along... thumb.gif

    Thanks Chris, thats what I liked about the shot too. I was panning an dthat caused it to be a tad soft. I almost culled it but I loked the pose too much.
    Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 13, 2006
    ian408 wrote:
    Hey Andy, I think Harry was holding out on us...

    Nice shots!

    Thanks Ian. I told you guys when you left that I had a hot eagle tip I was going to check out. It was probably fortunate that it was after your departure because I don't think Andy would have been up to the shoot. There wasn't a Starbucks or decent restarant in the immediate area. The whining would have been monumental. rolleyes1.gif
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  • ehughesehughes Registered Users Posts: 1,675 Major grins
    edited March 13, 2006
    Awesome Harry....
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 13, 2006
    DanielB wrote:
    i really like #2thumb.gif sweet shots harry.

    Thanks Daniel. It always works out when you use good models. :D
    Harry
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  • evil eggplantevil eggplant Registered Users Posts: 464 Major grins
    edited March 13, 2006
    Harry
    Great. Love 'em all

    Cheers
    Harryb wrote:
    Hi y'all,

    Just a few eagle flight shots

    59380165-O.jpg

    59380168-O.jpg

    59380166-O.jpg

    59380179-O.jpg

    sometimes they get too dang close
    59380188-O.jpg
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  • GuppyGuppy Registered Users Posts: 30 Big grins
    edited March 13, 2006
    Cool seires.clap.gifclap.gif
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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited March 13, 2006
    Thanks for raising the bar to stratospheric levels. :bluduh











    Just kidding. :giggle Absolutely awesome shooting, Harry. I'm green with envy.

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  • tmlphototmlphoto Registered Users Posts: 1,444 Major grins
    edited March 13, 2006
    Great shots Harry. clap.gif
    Thomas :D

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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited March 13, 2006
    Now you've gone and raised the bar again, Harry!!!thumb.gif
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2006
    DanielB wrote:
    i really like #2thumb.gif sweet shots harry.

    Thanks Daniel
    Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2006
    Ric Grupe wrote:
    The "clipped wing" shot is the one I like best! thumb.gif

    Now, would you go back and get that same shot with a fish in his clutches?!? rolleyes1.gif

    As always, IMO, there are no bad Baldy shots.....:D

    Thanks Ric. I do wish I had been shooting with a zoom on that shot though.
    I have been trying for an Eagle with a fish for two years now. Oh well, I least I have something to shoot for. :D
    Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 15, 2006
    CookieS wrote:
    Wonderful, must be special to have such great birds inyour area. I only see one now and then here ( a few hours north of you)

    Thanks. These guys were shot at a location that was closer to your home than they are to mine though.
    Harry
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    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited March 15, 2006
    Hill? You would have fallen off of a hill.........in Florida???

    Must be why I haven't gotten a good eagle shot...........no hills here.:):

    Great shots, Harry!

    ginger
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 15, 2006
    ehughes wrote:
    Awesome Harry....

    Glad you liked them Ed.
    Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 15, 2006
    evil eggplant wrote:
    Great. Love 'em all

    Cheers

    Thanks Rich. Always a pleasure hearing from ya.
    Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 15, 2006
    Guppy wrote:
    Cool seires.clap.gifclap.gif

    Thanks Guppy
    Harry
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    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 16, 2006
    kdog wrote:
    Thanks for raising the bar to stratospheric levels. :bluduh


    Just kidding. :giggle Absolutely awesome shooting, Harry. I'm green with envy.

    -joel

    Thanks Joel but if anyone has raised the bar on eagle shots that would be Dallas
    Harry
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    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
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