crested caracara

This was taken during a presentation by S.O.A.R (save our American

raptors). Comments are welcome. . .

Color, composition and focus are just superb.

Magnificent bird. There seems to be a wide halo around the subject- photoshop artifact?? One of these was spotted in Santa Barbara a week or so ago. First time ever here for this bird. Must have gotten way, way off course to wind up here.

Thank you for stopping by to comment Andrew and Leroy. . .

 

California is a long way from home for one of these guys. . I've seen them in the wild in SE Texas. . but it's hard to appreciate their beauty from a distance. .

 

I reposted the image. . the halo appears to be gone on my computer. . .

I altered the image to highlight the halo that I'm seeing. Not sure what it's from but there it is. Doesn't really detract all that much from this fine photo.

I'll have to rework it before I print it. .I know what caused it now. . I roughly outlined the bird with the lasso in order to sharpen it while excluding most of the background during the sharpening process. .it's not present in the original raw image. .

I wondered if it was something like that. It didn't look like simple posterization to me. I'll bet it will look great on your wall.

Excellent capture! regrads, B.

Handsome bird Donna!

Amazing details Donna, real nice bird "portrait!"

Excellent shot, Donna. I'm amazed at their hairy faces! I got a close-up of one and hadn't realized they were hairy and had eyelashes until then!

Yes, great portrait!

Estupendo retrato Donna. Un cordial saludo.

Wonderful Caracara dear Donna :D) I am so ignorant when birds are in question! Lucky me I can manage with birds kinds :) but for the rest ... so, I never saw such bird - caracara :) has such wonderful colors!

Sometimes I feel so happy and lucky that we have all the nature and animals and birds on earth, and not only Our Human Feelings and Emotions, mostly sad ones :(

 

So, my eyes are enjoying while looking at your colorful birds dear Donna :)

 

Thank YOU :)

Biliana

WOW!!!!!! Ivana