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Banking the curve in racing:
The slope of the turns, which can help cars enter and exit the corners. A flat track would have 0 degrees of banking. A track with 15 degrees would have significant banking. The higher the degree of banking, the faster the cars will be able to travel.
Special shout-out to STEFAN
This is the same eagle displayed a few days ago being harassed. They always look so majestic when banking!
This Arctic Tern makes a quick banking maneuver which shows its underbelly a bit more.
Taken 18 May 2022 at Potter Marsh, Anchorage, Alaska.
The Yakovlev Yak-50 (Russian: Яковлев Як-50) aerobatic aircraft is a single-seat all-metal low-wing monoplane with retractable main wheels and exposed tail wheel. The control surfaces are fabric-covered to save weight. The aircraft is not equipped with flaps.
Usually in woodland I try to eliminate as the sky or as much of it from the frame. The obvious reason for this is that inevitability the sky, no mater what the day is like will blow out the highlights, as the dynamic range is too much. Sometimes to capture a scene you need to include a big lump of sky. You can’t really use a ND grad as it will darken the intruding branches and foliage, so you need to either bracket the scene or reduce the exposure. Given the great DR latitude of our modern camera more often than not from a 3 frame bracket I only use 2 or in the end go with the darkest one.
This is another capture of a mature Bald Eagle in a banking turn but this time against a nice blue sky. I find when I compare the two shots that both eagles are using their wings exactly the same in terms of stretching the wings where the bottom wing is stretched more than the upper wing is as they turn.
Taken 1 March 2019 near Homer, Alaska.
Another one from my recent encounter with the Short Eared Owls - although a long way off it was wonderful to see them again.
Here folks note he decided to bank left as he left the pole and all he did was make a go round back to landing, being in the right place and the right time
PRICELESS................
A friend and I just got back from Ottawa where we my friend JP and I were guided by Rick Dobson, a wonderful guide and friend who I’ve been with several times. Conditions vary so much in Ottawa that the weather becomes part of the challenge and part of the “fun”. We never did get the pink skies that sometimes occur that far north but had a variety of conditions to work with. (I could have said “contend” with.) Rick is a professional who does everything in his power to give us photo ops and on this trip with worked together with his friend and professional guide, Marc, who was leading a group from Madrid. We found and photographed Snowy, Great Gray and Barred owls and didn’t have a day that we were skunked. Please let me know if you’d like Rick’s information and I’d be pleased to share it. His email is also shown above.
This is one of my favorite Snowy shots of the trip. It’s a female, identified by the dark bars on her feathers. Males are almost pure white on their belly and have faint dark markings on their top side. I’ve read that compared to other owls, they are more agile and often prey upon other birds. (Nyctea scandiaca) (Sony a1M2, 200-600 lens @300mm, 1/3200 second, f/6.3, ISO 1600)
We were interested in how Snowy Owls compared in size to Great Gray Owls and while there we read that the largest is the Eurasian Eagle-Owl, which can top out at over 10 lbs with a wingspan of up to 6.7’. While the largest individuals can win the size comparison, Blakinston’s Fish Owls usually grow heavier, also up to 10 lbs with a wingspan up to 6.1’. Next are Great Gray Owls, over 4 lbs and a wingspan up to 5’, and last of the big guys, Snowy Owls, up to 6.5 lbs with a wingspan up to 6’. (www.birdzilla.com/learn/largest-owls-in-the-world/)
That was THE highlight of the trip!!! 'Gambia 001' banking left on a Canarsie 31L departure. Seen from Howard Beach.
Shooting in manual mode and setting ISO to Auto, really made this shot possible. I had the settings at the shutter speed I wanted and the aperture ... so when this eagle zipped by and headed behind us into the trees I was able to track him and keep focus, and ended with a great exposure here. Letting the camera make that capture at ISO 2500, the clarity at the high ISO is very pleasing.
I also like the compression here into the wood, making the tight quarters look even tighter as the eagle banks with his meal looking for a branch to perch and eat.
Conowingo Dam, Maryland
This pileated woodpecker couple appear to now be parents based upon their activity. Neither one stays in the nest except for a few minutes, which I'm assuming is enough time to feed their very young. Here, the male is leaving in search of the next meal while the female was waiting to enter and feed her young.
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