Thanks for the comments
Still holding on to the money. So while the clock ticks, lets talk about the above shots.
My wife won a raffle last year to a bed/breakfast in Cape May NJ., $350.00 with no restrictions.
So we booked it for the Audubon birding event that was going on the last weekend of October. Same weekend as Sandy blowing through.
Having free lodging freed up other resources, so we signed up for a PHOTO WORKSHOP. So these birds are not free chase. These birds are rescue animals that someone brings and charges $0.93/minute per person.
So, nothing free about those birds.
This is the first time I have ever posted pics of this nature. All other photos, have been free chase.
This was our first photo workshop. OK for one time, not sure if I would do it again...
btw, I used the stamp tool in the RAW converter to get rid of the ropes and some other crap that made these look captive.
The mouse was handfed. The bird is perched on the handlers arm.
Sometimes these rescue birds can be pretty beat up, but these were almost perfect. Just one bird had an eye injury,
and one would have to wait for it to look the other way, to get the good side.
The light totally sucked that morning. Event started early, and first 15 minutes were throw aways.
30something hours left.
