first spring redtailed hawk

[paulnj]

Nothing is harder than sneaking up on a perched hawk, but sometimes we all get lucky ;)

This young redtailed hawk was SO BACKLIT, I needed plus 1.3 ev to nearly expose it correctly. I set the white point in PS and did very little else besides USM and a crop to vertical(8x10 format)

1D/100-400IS W/ 1.4TCII on LEXAR ;)

BTW... I never liked borders, so I never learned how to put one on