It’s been a couple years, but there is again a roadkill in a perfect enough spot to the passing highway as to attract the local Bald Eagle population, and be far enough distant from the road that the birds put up with being gawked at by passing traffic. Unfortunately for me as the photographer, it’s in a cornfield, but we can’t pick these things sometimes.
I counted seven birds, all mature, except for one junior, who was dominating the kill, until this bigger, more aggressive male showed up and proclaimed
“I am a Great Eagle, and what a Great Eagle am I”
I initially posted a small set of photos to social media, but was not all together happy with the images as I initially processed them. I shot them on a dark winter’s morning, with a high film speed. The colors were muddled, the contrast low. I’ve since processed the individual RAW files as HDR images through Photomatix Pro, and am much happier with the results.
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