Meet Frank
by Bob McQuade
D800 600 mm F8 1/4000 ISO400 Tripod
This is " Frank ", the leucistic bald eagle.Frank has had a few setbacks in life, but appears to be thriving. Besides standing out from the crowd with his partial lack of pigmentation, Frank has also lost the use of his left eye ( here is where you note that the skilled photographer got Frank from the right, his good side ). One would think this would cause problems with hunting, since I assume with only one eye, he lacks depth perception, and you would think that would be critical for fishing, but he appears healthy. Observing him here over several days, I have yet to see him fishing, but he does his share of stealing.
I liked the simplicity of the BG and how his white feathers were highlighted against it.
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6 commentsBG is actually two sets of distant mountains, not sky, the deep blue making that difficult to decipher I suppose. Overall, just plain difficult lighting conditions, as you may well guess, I have to own up to doings lots of PS adjustments and the yellow/blue adjustments force some compromises often.
Bob