In-Flight Bald Eagle - Click image to view larger!

Thanks for viewing/comments! It's a very cloudy day and lighting is not that

great. However, I went up to the bluff where the eagles perch to get this 'in-the-

air' angle type of shot against the ocean.

Love this shot of an eagle in flight.  It is well composed with good focus (especially on the eye).  Well done!

Thanks Bill! I keep thinking about how to shoot these fellow after my first trip at the  end of May. Took me a month to come up with this 'scheme' to shoot them the way I think would show them on more like eye level type of shot. Too bad about lighting but may be I can sneak out again in a few weeks back to Anchorage and get lucky with sunlight shot  :-)

I had used my 580EX II flash + Better Beamer Flash extender to help with the dull light also.

TmJ - It looks like you had a plan before setting out. It also looks like your plan worked out well as this is a very good image. I also assume you have tried this shot before as your settings worked very well. At first when I looked at the shutter speed I thought it would be to slow, but then I saw the ISO setting was up.The overall technical factors are very good. The light background works well with this dark subject. The overall composition excellent.

Thanks Dave! I had lots of flying shot the first trip ... up, up in the sky and it looks very uninteresting. I also notice that the ocean blue makes excellent background and I want eye-level shot. So, I ... look/drive around to find a path to allow me to go up the bluff where they perch/fly and soar to shoot at eye level. I also have seen some workshop images of eagle in the winter that look really good and I figure they must have use the flash to get the bird details so well.  It always help to do the homework before shooting and ... the rest depend on luck! :-)

You handled the BE shot very well even with the low light - Nicd angle Tmj

-Thao-

Superbly captured!  What a magnificent bird!!....  Mike

An excellent image very well planned and very well made, congratulations, ciao Giangiorgio

Thank you folks for stopping by and left your thought!  Happy shooting!

Beautiful capture, glad you got some shooting time into the trip.

You might have cropped it a little less to give it a more space on the left, top and bottom. 

Thanks Steve! Good to hear from you. :-)