Sunday, July 26, 2009

Great Blue in flight


GREAT BLUE HERON OVER LAKE SUPERIOR, GREEN, MICHIGAN, JULY 22, 2009

Pentax K20D
SMC Pentax-F* 300mm f4.5 ED (IF)
1/1000 sec. f11
ISO 400

Great Blues are like bald eagles -- they're easy to see but hard to photograph, because they seem to know that the camera is in the cabin out of easy reach whenever they pay a visit. These huge and ungainly birds are stately but slow fliers, primarily because they hold their necks in S-shapes and their legs out in the slipstream, creating lots of drag.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Looks like a heavy crop to me, but the result is not bad.