Wing, the falcon

[doenoe]

Since it was nice weather yesterday, i made some bird pics again. This falcon is called Wing. And as all falcons, its a down right pain in the butt to photograph. Just way too fast for me and for my lens. But i did get a few shots that worked out:

And this is Nikita, an African fish eagle. She just started her training and yesterday she flew a couple of yards for the first time and landing on the hand of the trainer. Awesome sight. In a while she will be flying in the demo too......cant wait

 

[lostprophet]

oh that 1st shot is something else!!!
And Nikita is a beauty, one of my fave demos at The Hawk Conservancy is the African Fish Eagle

 

[Tangerini]

The first is my favorite as well, just beautiful! I cannot imagine that anything is too fast for you to capture, I am always amazed by your photos.

 

[Sw1tchFX]

These turned out great, except you've got some really nasty and distracting CA on some of them.

 

[AIRIC]

Very nice captures.

Eric

 

[JTHphoto]

great shots, daan, i love the third one! :thumbup:

 

[doenoe]

Thanks for the comments everyone
I had to look up the CA comment. But i know what you mean now, i just dont know how to get rid of it yet.

 

[Raymond J Barlow]

nice shots Daan.. you did grat on that falcon.. they are so fast.

 

[doenoe]

thanks
And this was one of the slower ones. Was alot of wind, so when flying into the wind there were moments i could take some nice pics.
A few weeks a go another man was here, wis his falcons. And those were almost impossible to shoot. Wickedly fast.