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Day 2!

I have been unable to drive myself (safely) because of my knee, which is getting better, by the way!  I can walk around without a cane, but it is still really stiff and hard to get into and out of a car.  So on this nice, sunny New Year’s Day, in the beautiful late afternoon light, I enlisted the help of Daily Daughter #2 as my driver, and we rolled and slid on down to the road between Giant Springs and Rainbow Dam.  This is often a good place for wildlife, mainly waterfowl, but also the occasional eagle or two.

Here are two immature Bald Eagles playing around.  These are 100% crops…I either need a longer lens or they need to fly on my side of the Missouri!

(1/1500, f8, 250mm, ISO 400, +1/2 stop)

(1/1500, f8, 250mm, ISO 400, +1/2 stop)

(1/1500, f8, 250mm, ISO 400, +1/2 stop)

(1/1500, f8, 250mm, ISO 400, +1/2 stop)

Note that these are over exposed by 1/2 stop.  That is what you done to when there is a lot of snow in the photo, because snow lies to your light meter in your camera.  If I had thought of it at the time I would have tried a full stop over, too.

~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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