Asher....I was going to pick up Jordan for a shoot,shes the girl i posted a picture of in the wolf skin...Monica was with me,the girl whos eyes you did not believe to be blue...Monica and i were walking up to Jordans house which has a totem pole in the front yard and about a block from us in the road lands this massive bald eagle (they are big birds!!)
I knew it would be gone quickly, Monica was snapping away with a point and shoot that was in her purse....The bird took off...We told Jordan about it at her door and as we stood outside it came soaring back very low with this big fish still in its talons...It landed on her neighbors roof!!!!
Now...My camera was burried in the back of my car as that day we were going to go shoot up in the mountains, a long drive i'd not need my camera...Right...So i run to my car and dig it out, switch to my zoon trying not to break anything in my hurry. Changed my ISO to 400...I pulled the camera up not even looking through it just clicked it and looked at my display and knew where i needed to adjust to, then i brought it up, walking towards it i sharted shooting...Got 2 or 3 of it on the peak of the roof and then it started to fly...
The hardest thing i have done thus far is try to track a bird in flight with my camera...4 shots, 2 were crap, one i have yet to really look at his wings are up as he's trying to get elevation and this shot which caught his wings at full extention, the actual print and not this low res web file you can see blood on his beak from eating the fish....