Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jan 24, 2014, at 9:57 PM, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote: > Last Sunday I was down on the Mississippi River, South of LeClaire, Iowa > to photograph the Bald Eagles and took this series of an Immature Bald > Eagle learning to fish. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0828a.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0829a.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0830a.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0831a.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0832a.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0833a.jpg.html > > Here is a photo of the crowd on Sunday. Quite a large crowd, over 180 > photographers, for such a warm day, 38F, as the Eagles are not usually as > active on warm days. They were actually quite active and teh shooting was > very good in spite of the high temperature, but the river has a large fish > population right now and that may be why they were out in the numbers we > found on Sunday, about 150 birds. Lock & Dam 14 is one of the best Bald > Eagle sites in the Lower 48 to photograph these birds, as they fish fairly > close to the bank of the river in Iowa. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-1016756a.jpg.html Gorgeous series. I suspect each could benefit from just a tad of dodging around the eyes. I rarely enjoy seeing a covey or gaggel of photographers; as it disturbs my fantasy of "you and the eagle" Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist