Turkey Vulture [OC] Except...
I usually file turkey vultures under Not Interesting. We have them at home. They're everywhere: Parked on the power lines behind my work, perching on your flagpole, slouching around on the ground picking your town's roadkill clean. Or, most often, a familiar black silhouette against the sky:
What with one thing and another they're also not the most photogenic bird in the world.
This time, though, I had the rare opportunity to look down on one from above rather than the other way around.
My Canon R10 has a purported subject tracking feature, which struggles quite a bit with birds soaring over some manner of textured terrain, be that ground or trees from above, or over or even on water. I got a couple of halfway decent shots among dozens of useless ones, and tellingly the only ones that were even vaguely acceptable were the ones where I took a punt at focusing manually. Both of these were at the extreme end of my lens' range, as well.
What with one thing and another they're also not the most photogenic bird in the world.
This time, though, I had the rare opportunity to look down on one from above rather than the other way around.
My Canon R10 has a purported subject tracking feature, which struggles quite a bit with birds soaring over some manner of textured terrain, be that ground or trees from above, or over or even on water. I got a couple of halfway decent shots among dozens of useless ones, and tellingly the only ones that were even vaguely acceptable were the ones where I took a punt at focusing manually. Both of these were at the extreme end of my lens' range, as well.