I'm continuing to work through the now 4000 photos that were part of the course Junko and I took on photographing birds in flight. Even while traveling with my husband this month and taking hundreds more! There was something about this moment with a single crane standing out from all the others on 'final approach' to setting in for the night.
@kali66 I'll give it a try and see how it looked. I left it in because I had liked the stark layers and proportions but maybe a different sizing would work.
A dramatic image with the one isolated bird against the darkening background. I love the dangling legs. Do the sand cranes fly with their legs dangling like that all the time? I know our great blue cranes do it makes them easy to pick out from other birds, even from quite a distance
@gardencat Thanks for the visit and comment. Sandhill cranes fly with their legs straight back, but when they come in for a landing, it's like they are putting landing gear down -- their legs move downward until they are in the position you see here. There are many comical positions they hold in between being back from flight and down like this and I had the most fun filming the comical ones. I'll post some of those at some point!
This is beautiful! I haven't done anything with the bird images since we left Bosque. I'm heavily into Cuba now. Then Bosque. Maybe we can work on them NYE?
