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My first visit to a farm in Wales to shoot Red Kites and what an education that was!! Never really appreciated the skill involved in getting top quality shots of these, as I was always under the impression that it was a staged environment and you couldn't fail to get good images... but it's tough for the novice flight photographer!! I shot about 6gb of shots and have kept about 10 frames and none of them are really good.

Really need a good few visits and a lot of practise in flight photography!!

Unfortunately this is cropped to about 40% of the full frame

Opted for a big in the frame shot to add a bit of impact, so I suspect it won't appeal to most as I generally would have liked more room for the Kite to fly into, but here it is and hats off to the people that have top drawer full frame shots of these!

Comments appreciated

1d2, 500/4is + 1.4x, 1/1000th, f5.6, iso 200, tripod