As I had a few minutes spare this weekend, I thought I would revisit some of my Bosque
Del Apache images, and in particular those where master falconer Matt Mitchell flew some of his wonderful birds for us.
If you have not tried taking images of flying
birds of prey, then seek out a falconer and try your luck: you won’t regret it.
For me I was lucky to have Matt and his rescued
birds. Matt is a native New Mexican, and
also an artist, drawing his inspiration for his hand carved fetishes from his
early love of wildlife. He has been a
master falconer for the past 40 years along with breeding hawks and falcons for
over 20 years.
This capture of one of Matt's Harris Hawks, with it's square close in crop,
was taken with my Canon 5D3 with a 70-200mm F/4L lens. I used a base ISO of 100 and a Magic Lantern
Dual-ISO setting at 100/800, with an aperture set at F/9. The shutter speed was
1/1000s.
I simply hope, like me, you just enjoy the beauty
that nature provides us.
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