Osprey Splash

Nikon D4s
600mm + 1.4 TC
ISO 800
F/7.1
1/2500
Manual Exposure
WB Auto with post correction
Shot from a tripod w/Wimberley Head
Cropped 67% (hopefully this holds up under heavy cropping)
Shot in November of last year

Got lucky on this one. Most of the dives on this day were a long way off and/or the wrong direction. This was taken in a location where lots of photographers shoot osprey and since it was a fairly slow day there was lots of talking going on when all of a sudden right in front of several us we see a bird falling out of the sky. Because it was relatively close I was able to get a lock focus on it before it hit the background of green trees and bushes(That is where I usually lose the focus lock). I was also trying one of the new settings that comes with the D4s called group focusing. The way I've read it is that there are 4 focus points that are lit around a center focus point that is not lit and as long as there is one or more focus points on the nearer subject it will remain in focus. SO, if one, two or three of the focus points falls onto the background you won't lose focus since the other focus point is on the subject nearer than the background and the front focus rules with group focusing.
OK. Enough of that. This was shot in landscape mode and cropped slightly from the top, none on the bottom and quite a bit off both sides.
Hope you like this one. Thanks for looking.