Shutter: 1/200, f/6.3, ISO 400, 270mm (zoomed ALL the way in!!) I could have cropped it down, but I liked all the different colors of rock, so I left it.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Lucky number seven
This California Condor patiently posed for a photo as I stood on the the pedestrian Navajo Bridge in Page, Arizona. He's wearing a tag on his wing. This is apparently Condor Number Seven.
Shutter: 1/200, f/6.3, ISO 400, 270mm (zoomed ALL the way in!!) I could have cropped it down, but I liked all the different colors of rock, so I left it.
Shutter: 1/200, f/6.3, ISO 400, 270mm (zoomed ALL the way in!!) I could have cropped it down, but I liked all the different colors of rock, so I left it.
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Hopefully he's lucky enough to find some little rodents running through the rocks for his dessert. Great picture and I like the rock colors too.
ReplyDeleteLucky you to catch this shot, too. Glad you didn't crop too tightly. The rocks have great color and help frame the scene.
ReplyDeleteVal - is it number 27? We were there this summer and got a lot of pictures of 3 condors that were all tagged. We can see number 27 on many of our images. I love the shot and hope you enjoyed your time in the grand Canyon. Were you just there or is this earlier in the year?
ReplyDeleteTo answer Shelia's question (hoping it was the same bird she had seen...) I had a few other shots, where the bird was in profile. The tag had been broken...looks like it was originally Condor Number Forty-Seven.
ReplyDeletewonderful capture....I got a few shots of the condor while I was in the Grand Canyon last summer....I have a #7 too, but does that dude travel...HA!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you didn't crop either. I really like the blur in the background rock and the great detail in the foreground. So funny that you all got shots of tagged condors...
ReplyDeleteBoy are they getting used to people, the only one I have seen was in Taronga Park zoo and I posted a shot of him under "Regal" last year that is a bird with a really impressive wingspan. Lovely
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you didn't crop too, the color is so fine. This almost gives me vertigo with the background rocks in soft focus. So nice and how cool that the tags are seen so easily. And of course how very cool that they are surviving!
ReplyDeleteYou don't see this very often. Lucky shot for you too!!
ReplyDeleteNice capture on this creature - I like the way he's perched near the edge - it shows him so well in his habitat.
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