Nikon D700 | Tamron 200 - 500 mm lens | ISO 200 1/800 sec @ f6.3

I’ve enjoyed for three days now my trip to Green Island.  I suspect that I will be going back.  I have some more Eagle pictures to share with you tomorrow but wanted to show you these now.

This is not what I pictured in my head.  I wanted a spectacular corner to corner head on shot of an Eagle with its yellow eyes piercing the camera lens and its hooked beak open.  As is a common saying now days , “It is what it is.”

Nikon D700 | Tamron 200 - 500 mm lens | ISO 200 1/800 sec @ f6.3

This is what I ended up with and I guess for my first time shooting the 500 mm lens and really my first time shooting Eagles I can’t be too disappointed.    What I can do is vow to do a better job next time.  Like so many instructors say over and over again.  “Practice, practice, practice.”

Nikon D700 | Tamron 200 - 500 mm lens | ISO 200 1/800 sec @ f6.3

Eagles are such magnificent creatures.  So majestic in their stature.  I could shoot them all day long.  I”ve seen some incredible Eagle pictures over the last few years.  The Telegraph Herald Photographers have captured some really stunning images of Eagles.  That is what my goal is.  If not this year then next.

Thanks for stopping by.  Be careful.