I decided we needed our logo at work updated. The central part of our logo is a Hawk. So today I decided to give taking photos of these magnificent birds a try. This is the first time I have tried to photograph birds of prey. I took my daughter out in search of some raptors. Within minutes we came across an osprey checking out a local pond. I set up to start shooting totally focused on the osprey when my daughter started to scream and then run. She was being attacked by a couple of protective geese. I couldn’t tell where the nest was but they were not happy with us. In the meantime the osprey flew away. We then started down some back roads and pretty soon came across this red tail hawk.

The specs:
Hand held
iso 400
280mm
f/4.8
1/4000sec

I post processed it in lightroom and then added a small topaz adjust filter to the final product.

Thank you for visiting today.

~wr~