Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L IS USM
Location: Ithaca, NY
Date: May 29, 2008
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 320
Shutter: 1/2000s
Galleries: Birds
Date Uploaded: Jun 12, 2008
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Ok, not the sharpest shot, but it commemorates my first sighting of an American Kestrel.
Greatly cropped from the original, he was too high up even for my 320mm equivalent reach. Late day harsh sun produced those sharp outlines.
The Windhover
I CAUGHT this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!
Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins |
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