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Close encounter

by Geoffrey Baker

Gallery: Regional: UKNPPosted March 6, 2011211 views1 comments
Taken at Gigrin Farm Red Kite feeding station, Wales a few years ago.

I did actually try to get a Red Kite in the shot as it dived down for food, the Buzzard was feeding on the floor but as you know the Kites don't land, they swoop down to pick up food and eat it in the air.

Konica/Minolta Dynax 7D
Sigma 50-500
1/4000th
f6.3
ISO 400
360mm
+1 stop exposure compensation
Probably about a 50% crop from the original
Hand held

Comments

1 comments
Comment posted by Ian Mason on March 7, 2011 at 1:54 PM
I like the idea of this shot, although I think it would have been a lot stronger if the buzzard had been the point of focus, framed by the out of focus kite.
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