I had posted a quick snapshot this beautiful bird on Facebook a couple of weeks ago, but forgot to post the edited version here. We were leaving the Assabet River NWR and spotted this fellow on a fencepost just off of the driveway. We backed up slowly and it hung around while I contorted myself to get the camera out of the back of the car. Shot a few seconds of video as well (just propped on the car window). After admiring and photographing for a few minutes we left him/her in peace to find dinner.
Technical: Canon 7D, 70-200mm f/2.8L at 200mm, 1/320 at f2.8, ISO 16oo, semi-handheld. Lightroom 3: tiny bit of fill, clarity +20, aggressive sharpening/masking, dodged the eyes a smidge, burned the background 0.7 stop just to pop the subject a bit more.
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