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I just love that tail splay, shooting has not been all that great and the pickings are very slim, and the heat has been obscene, but I try to keep on truckin'.
Thank to all for everything.
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
I had to wait awhile, trying to detect any sign of intention as this hawk sat on a snag, surveying its surroundings. I didn't have a tripod so I couldn't just stay focused on him. The wait paid off as I got this power turn shot. Thanks for checking it out.
She flew and went hunting I watched her glide across a field and anticipated at any moment she would be diving after a meadow vole but whatever she initially was after must have disappeared and then she just suddenly veered right and headed back to where she was initially perched. I wanted to stay and watch her catch a meal but the light was poor and getting darker by the minute.
A Black-bellied Plover banks and turns along the causeway's shoreline.
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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.
Another one from my recent encounter with the Short Eared Owls - although a long way off it was wonderful to see them again.
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.
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/)