Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Chris Calohan on December 12, 2014, 12:28:30 pm
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By the very nature of what a Vulture is, it generally gives most people a visible shivver when they either see one or someone mentions one. They are carrion feeders and only feed on an animal already dead; hence the great circling flock riding the airwaves with such ease waiting for the last foot quivver. However as a meat eater, it is also considered a raptor in the same breath of the eagle, osprey or hawk.
In this image, I wanted to portray both aspects of this quite magnificent bird: the easy attitude of simple soaring and that bit of ominous foreboding we get watching them as they wait.
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"In this image, I wanted to portray both aspects of this quite magnificent bird: the easy attitude of simple soaring and that bit of ominous foreboding we get watching them as they wait."
Congratulations Chris ... I certainly think you have achieved your goal! Intriguing and well presented.
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I like your treatment of the bird, but I hope you can see the fingerprints in the background. Not a big deal until you blow it up like when it is projected on a large screen.
JR
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It's part of how the plate streaked from the amonia. It's a large plate and I would have to be Sasquatch to have fingerprints that large... ;D
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Intriguing and very effective.