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Male Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) - (Published by GETTY IMAGES) & (Selected for FLICKR EXPLORE)

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***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on Tuesday 23rd January 2024

 

 

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**** This frame was chosen on Wednesday 20th July 2024 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #498. This is my 235th photograph to be selected.

 

 

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty seven metres at 12:38pm on an overcast afternoon on Wednesday 17th January 2024, off Chessington Avenue in Bexleyheath, Kent.

 

 

Here we see an adult Male Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), a bird of prey belonging to the kestrel group of the falcon family Falconidae. It is also known as the European kestrel, Eurasian kestrel, Common Kestrel or Old World kestrel. In the United Kingdom, where no other kestrel species commonly occurs, it is generally just called kestrel.

 

 

Female kestrels are an unremarkable shade of mid-brown, with their upper parts a richer shade than their breast and underparts. Their wingtips are darker brown than the rest of their bodies, and their tails are light brown, barred with darker, almost black banding. Female kestrels’ bodies are speckled all over with mottled darker markings.

 

 

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Nikon D850 Focal length 600mm Shutter speed: 1/500s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/6.3 ISO Sensitivity: AutoISO110 Hand held with Tamron Vibration Control set to position 1 Image area FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L (8256 x 5504) (14 bit uncompressed) Focus Mode: AF-C Nikon Back button focusing enabled AF-S Priority selection: Focus AF-Area Mode: 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual exposure Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Natural Light Auto, 0, 0 Colour space: RGB Active D-Lighting: Normal Picture control: (SD) Standard (Sharpening +3 Clarity +1.00)

 

 

Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Mcoplus professional MB-D850 multi function battery grip 6960.Two Nikon EN-EL15a batteries (Priority to battery in Battery grip). Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag.

 

 

 

 

 

LATITUDE: N 51d 28m 28.21s

LONGITUDE: E 0d 8m 10.54s

ALTITUDE: 57.0m

 

 

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 90.9MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 20.50MB

 

 

 

 

 

PROCESSING POWER:

 

 

Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.10 (9/05/2019) LD Distortion Data 2.018 (18/02/20) LF 1.00

 

 

HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit Version 1.4.1 (18/02/2020). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit Version 1.6.2 (18/02/2020). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 2.4.5 (18/02/2020). Nikon Transfer 2 Version 2.13.5. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.

 

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Uploaded on July 19, 2024
Taken on January 17, 2024