Fighting Eagles

Taken with backlight at Chilkat River near Haines in Alaska last

November....Best regards, Harry

Simply unbelievable! 7/7

Good reflexes to capture this !!!

You might want to think about some creative cropping for the finishing touch!!! Well done

so close to perfect...and still very, very nice. 5/5, due to color balance, sharpness and that nasty band of white at the bottom.

 

still, the dynamic moment here deserves credit.

what an awesome capture. well done.

Beautiful!

The white strip on the bottom is a bit distracting, but at the same time I think it needs to be there. Maybe if there was some sort of shadowing on the snow below so it showed some contour. But then, I'm no proffesional, so I could be wrong.

Either way, it's an awesome photo. Not every day someone get's an opportunity like this. Congrats.

 

Pino

Difficult concept to grasp that you not only saw this, but captured it on film. Sure... would be nicer w/ a crop, but man... this is one stunning image.

Fantastic shot. Congratulation

You should be very pleased to have captured this moment so decisively. Great stuff!

This is an excellent image. I can't imagine how you did this. Were you using continuous AF, or manual? I imagine you blew away about 6 to 8 frames/second to get this. I (and others) would like to hear a little how you got this, if you don't mind. Again, great work!

You need the white at the bottom as a point of reference to where this takes place. 7/7

For there viewing, rating and great constructive comment. To answer your question Bryan. This shot was taken while I was at the shore of Chilkat River near Haines. I had my camera with 500mm attached on a sturdy tripod and were making shots of the eagles who are everywere around upthere in November. While making wildlife ore sports shots, my camera always is on 8 frames per second and AF. It's almost impossible to make shots of these fast moving animals with the camera on manual focus, although not that long ago (lets say ten years) whe all had to do with manual focus and made great shots to, but now whe are used to AF it's ver hard to go back to manual again. While taken shots of some eagles feeding on the salmon overthere, I did see something happen from the corner of my eye. It was an eagle who was trying to steel a piece of fish of an other eagle. The other one did'nt like that very much ofcourse and did defend his piece of fish this way. Because I had to turn my camera on the tripod to this action very quick, I only did make this one shot this time. There are some more fighting shots made by me during the week i was there last November, but I did'nt have the time to scan them all yet. In the comming weeks I will upload some more of these action shots, but if they are as good as this one I don't know yet. Like I already mentioned, there are thousends of eagles at Chilkat river during winter time and although there really is salmon enough for each and everyone of them, they still are fighting for sometimes the smallest pieces. All in all there is some luck needed for these kinds of images, but also observation of the birds. After a day ore two one can see at there behaivior what they are up to and sometimes are able to point the camera to it and shoot action shots like this. Hopefully it's a bit understandeble what I did wright down here, because it's still hard for me to translate bigger stories like this from Dutch in to English. If there are more questions about this ore other images I did upload on PN, I would answer them with pleasure, as good as possible....Best regards, Harry

Harry thank for very interesting comments and amazing pictures as usual.7/7.

 

Nice to hear your detailed comments and explanations. Long-time fan of your images - Bryan.

SUPERB !!!

Very interesting and masterly captured. Kind regards.

GREAT! And on film!

What a fantastic capture!!! an amazing nature shot!

 

Great job, Harry!

Excellent shot.Greeting

Amazing capture Harry!

One of the best Eagle shots I've seen. You've set the bar hight. Congrats.

Jim

Hi Harry, great shot! As for the band of white, I think it's all in the context of the shot and here, the band is fine, it adds extra drama to know they were so close to the ground. Thanks!

great natural capture of these amazing birds

7/7 I found the suggestions to "improve" your photograph hysterically funny.

Harry, great shot, but I like it with the log in the foreground. I think the stick broke up the blinding white area really well. No matter what, still a great image.