Sharp Shinned Hawk

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Image Title: Sharp Shinned Hawk

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By: Dave Stacey

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Photographer	Dave Stacey {Karma:150877}
Project	#56 Wildlife and Insects	Camera Model	Fuji S5000
Categories	Wildlife	Film Format	Digital JPEG
Portfolio	Birds	Lens	Fujinon 5.7-57mm with Olympus Tcon 1.7
Uploaded	7/14/2008	Film / Memory Type	Xd Card
		ISO / Film Speed	200
Views	697	Shutter	1/500
Favorites	1	Aperture	f/4.5
Critiques	20	Rating	6.36 / 7 Ratings
Location	City - Winnipeg State - MANITOBA Country - Canada
About	I was lucky to see this guy, as I was riding my bike, and looked up to see a storm damaged tree, after a couple of days of strong winds.
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Stan Ciszek

{K:56854} 7/19/2008

Amazing shot,Dave.
Stan.

Del Metheny {K:25617} 7/18/2008

Excellent shot with good detail. How do you get then to stay once you stop and point your camera. My luck is they always fly just before I can snap the shot.

Tony Quilty

{K:591} 7/17/2008

Excellent capture Dave

Pablo Dylan

{K:63918} 7/15/2008

Fantastic bird...great photographer

Bravo Dave.

Pablo

Nick Karagiaouroglou

{K:127263} 7/15/2008

First of all, excuse me for the repeated replies to your comment, Dave! I dodn't realize that the reply *was* added on the webpage despite the fact the reaction of the UF-server was to give me an error message. I had better inspect the webpage of my image before trying and trying again and again to reply your comment.

On your image now, and I hope that the server problems will not appear again. Well.. perfect!! Just look at the mathcing of the textures of the owl and the wood of the branches! Don't we see the natural game of camouflage here? Oh yes, we do! And how we do! The exactly depicted feathers on the chest/belly of the bird seem to be a well designed copy of the texture of the tree, which was also perfectly burned on your CCD! We see how things go on nature. It's just seemlessly integrate into your surroundings, or unfortunately.. die! That stealthy hunter, as the result of evolution, is perfectly fitted to its own world. Come out of nothing, strike quickly, and disappear again! Kind of guerrilla, one might say too, but it's efficient for surviving. And as long as nature doesn't care about any kind of additional "morals", it remains as successful, and provides us with all those winderful, stealthy, clever living beings that we can capture as they *are*! In this discipline you excelled here, Dave!

From the more technical point of view it is a very original composition too. It somehow puts that bird into the very center of interest. Not only because its details are so perfectly painted. And alsonot only because it's so exclusively separated from its camouflaging background! But also because it is just shown as any eventual (and lucky) viewer would see it, right out of nothing. Sitting on the branch and from a low angle, as it scans the horizon for prey or also danger!

Nature as natural as it can be! Extra points for your readiness to shoot!

Nick

Robert Chin

{K:22282} 7/15/2008

Very nice portrait Dave,love the natural setting.
Take care
Robbie