Spent a day and a half on my second trip this year to this location to shoot Bald Eagles..

The weather was absolutely horrible...rain, overcast for all of but maybe an hour..cold.

I haven't processed all of them yet, so here are a few captures from my trip...

<img src="http://images32.fotki.com/v1064/photos/4/43687/5665637/20071130Conowingo97-vi.jpg">

<img src="http://images32.fotki.com/v1045/photos/4/43687/5665637/20071130Conowingo128-vi.jpg">

<img src="http://images31.fotki.com/v1050/photos/4/43687/5665637/20071130Conowingo509-vi.jpg">

<img src="http://images31.fotki.com/v1055/photos/4/43687/5665637/20071130Conowingo465-vi.jpg">

<img src="http://images31.fotki.com/v1040/photos/4/43687/5665637/20071130Conowingo4062-vi.jpg">

Though this was a long way off, the image is aggressively cropped and the sky is a mushy mess, the Talon Lock is still impressive..

<img src="http://images32.fotki.com/v1047/photos/4/43687/5665637/20071130Conowingo91Edit-vi.jpg">

<center>All images shot with Nikon D200, Sigma APD EX 300 f/2.8 with matched 1.4 TC, tripod mounted on Wimberly Sidekick...</center>

sight to see!

more likely it's a result of excessive PP'ng.

I did these before color calibrating...and, the overcast flat lighting took a good deal of tweaking.

could be my monitor on this laptop, but the sky (background) on all the shots is very "washed out" to me, cant describe it really, kinda overexposed, but that might be the nature of the beast with these nature shots, so I dont know.

well done

That was shot from like a gojillion miles away and it's a massive crop...plus it was a horrible overcast day.

It was just too cool of a shot to not give a try at making something usable out of it. Best I could do. It took so much work that it ended up with a very "plastic" like, surreal look...

BTW, neither bird ended up with the fish...seconds later...

<img src="http://images31.fotki.com/v1057/photos/4/43687/5665637/20071130Conowingo87-vi.jpg">

makes mounting/dismounting so much easier and quicker than the screw knob (as long as the plate on your lens in Wimberley or RRS)

<img src="http://tarkhan-mouravi.com/test/sidekick1.jpg">
<img src="http://tarkhan-mouravi.com/test/sidekick2.jpg">

And on my Markins M20 with a Wimberly c30 on my monopod atop a Bogen/Manfrotto 3232. I spoke to David Wimberly who explained how to disassemble the shaft to aid in getting the clamp on/off.

I like the lever action's practicality, but I often worry that I may catch the lever with a cuff or strap leader and release the whole thing...only to watch it helplessly as it crashes to the ground.

That RRS BH is a piece of art!!