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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: Nasos Kosmas on August 06, 2024, 22:57:47
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Creta island is a place that you may find Vultures among other big birds
For me was the first time I sow and shoot such a bird 8)
I visited a friend in Creta first week of July and I did carry my photographic bag with Z8/500pf
I had an info about where to find these birds, so success seemed positive ;D
In deed when we took the 2 km path to climb the mountain, 15-20 birds passed several times our way trying to identify us, it was an unbelievable moment!!
Finally we found the way up to a place where we can show birds passing under our height, a unique View :)
Thanks for watching!
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Must’ve been a lovely hike and lovely moments. Would love to hike there someday. Thanks for sharing.
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Great images Nasos.
Vultures are really important links in the fragile chains of our ecosystems
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Beautiful birds. Elegant.
Thank you for sharing the images and the story!
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Great reward for what sounds like a strenuous climb.
Must’ve been a lovely hike and lovely moments. Would love to hike there someday. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you Tim, Colin, Paco and Hugh for your kind words :)
Let my explain some more about the "climb" .
There was an off road (dirt road path) that we could drive but my friend refused to drive the rented car ( it was forbitten by the rental) so we punish our selves :o locking the car and walk the road under very hot conditions, any way we stopped some times when we show the birds flying over our heads (actually the birds show us and fly over to identify) that would not be possible driving.
Some more photos including us, tired but very happy :)
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What an amazing landscape too
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What an amazing landscape too
Yes ideed in the right side you may see Heraklion the capital of Creta near the sea and in front of as fields of grapes and olive oil trees :)
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Nice pictures, Nasos. It is always a treat to see this birds in nature.
Seeing your pictures brings vivid memories. I can't understand why my last time in Creta was in 1977 ...
Thanks for sharing.
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Nice pictures, Nasos. It is always a treat to see this birds in nature.
Seeing your pictures brings vivid memories. I can't understand why my last time in Creta was in 1977 ...
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Bruno, you have to renew your visit to Creta :)
My first visit was also beginning of 80s being a student in University of Athens where I met Kostas the other friend in the photo.
We had a dream back then: to be the happy owners of a Hasellblad 6x6 camera, unfortunately I never succeed so I stayed with Nikon and never regret 8)
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Beautiful birds. Elegant.
Thank you for sharing the images and the story!
+1 and Creta is a lovely island, where there in may.
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+1 and Creta is a lovely island, where there in may.
Thank you Bent, I think I remember your posting with photos :)
@Paco you are very right : elegant is the right word when I see photo 1#
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In deed when we took the 2 km path to climb the mountain, 15-20 birds passed several times our way trying to identify us, it was an unbelievable moment!!
they were looking at you as potential food ;)
wonderful pictures of birds, I didn´t realize as nice, until now
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they were looking at you as potential food ;)
wonderful pictures of birds, I didn´t realize as nice, until now
Thank you Thomas, I do agree about potential food ;D ;D
I show some vultures standing on Facebook pages and it was not so nice, flying is another story, it's very quiet, don’t move the wings like a small glider! I do have some phone videos I don’t know how to post here
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@Nasos
Great pictures of vultures at eye level. I have been to Crete several times and love it very much. I have also seen vultures there, but only at a distance. It seems you are at Ornio in the White mountains?
Cheers Kim
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@Nasos
Great pictures of vultures at eye level. I have been to Crete several times and love it very much. I have also seen vultures there, but only at a distance. It seems you are at Ornio in the White mountains?
Cheers Kim
Thank you very much Kim :)
No this is not the place, its on Juchtas mountain (Γιούχτα) near Heraklion
There are several places you may see vultures, as I can see on Facebook pages from people who shoot in Creta
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This is very fine set of photographs of vultures in flight.
It is actually quite difficult to take such shots but another place where one can be successful is at Giant's Castle in the Drakensberg mountains.
There is a photographers' Hide (which you can rent for the day) on the top of the mountains there and the Lodge will sell you a bucket of fresh bones so that you can lay out a meaty breakfast for the vultures and other birds of prey.
To get up to the Hide, you do need a 4-wheel drive vehicle. The clouds were right down upon us on the day that I had the chance to go there but I was still able to take close-up photographs of Cape Vultures, Ravens and Jackal Buzzards in flight. We had very much hoped to see the rare Lammergeier as well but unfortunately we didn't.
At home, I have Black Vultures. (I actually like Vultures and find them very photogenic.)
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Thank you very much Ann :)
Good to know where to find these birds, I just show the place via google maps, seems very beautiful !
I also check the net for Lammergeier residence and Creta is a place for them :) so maybe next time(s) !
I consider my self lucky on this hike, we had 60-70 min on the top with very good results
Talking about Vultures this is a very beautiful bird I wish I could find :)
https://bcgforums.com/threads/king-vulture.37924/#post-423126 (https://bcgforums.com/threads/king-vulture.37924/#post-423126)
Nasos
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King Vultures live in Costa Rica — another wonderful place for photographers!
I have spent several weeks there but unfortunately I failed to meet any King Vultures.
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Really well captured, sharp! and yes the eye level is really making them stand out!
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Thank you very much Erik, yes the eye level became viral to me now ;D it’s not the usual perspective for Birds In Flight- BIF
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New series of photos as I visited the site beginning of the week
This time I had the change to shoot a Vulture standing on a rock from a distance, very different than flying ;)
Same setup Z8/ 500pf plus 1.4 TC III on some of the shots
Thank you for looking :)
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and the rest
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Really great captures, even better than on the previous page - nice views from above.
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Very impressive, Nasos.
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Nasos , +1 to what Øivind and Ian have already said and thank you for posting them.
I have enjoyed seeing these images of birds that we do not see in my part of the world.
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Very impressive, Nasos.
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Very beautiful photos, thank you for bringing us closer to that magical place,
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Great pictures, Nasos.
How would you compare this set up with the D500 and straight 500PF?
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Really great captures, even better than on the previous page - nice views from above.
Thank you very much Øivind, glad you like it :)
As you said, nice views from above!
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Nasos , +1 to what Øivind and Ian have already said and thank you for posting them.
I have enjoyed seeing these images of birds that we do not see in my part of the world.
Thank you very much Hugh :) It is strange for me also to see birds/animals that I dont see here :)
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Very impressive, Nasos.
Thank you Ian, Bent, Joost for your kind words :)
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Very beautiful photos, thank you for bringing us closer to that magical place,
Thank you very much Arturo :) Yes this place is magical, Nature is magical!
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Great pictures, Nasos.
How would you compare this set up with the D500 and straight 500PF?
Thank you very much Bruno :)
D500 and straight 500PF are made for one another 8)
Z8 is a great camera but I dont see that you miss something with D500 except video
Eye autofocus is great to have but is not instant and in some cases you may miss the target
I feel that Nikon next gen will be more reliable on this
Generally speaking I think Z8 is 55% and D500 is 45% on this, its good to hear what other members think about it!
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New series of photos as I visited the site beginning of the week
This time I had the change to shoot a Vulture standing on a rock from a distance, very different than flying ;)
Same setup Z8/ 500pf plus 1.4 TC III on some of the shots
Thank you for looking :)
agree to everything written about your pictures, the birds are impressive, your pictures are excellent
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Thanks for the feedback, Nassos. I must say I haven’t found (yet) a very compelling reason to replace the D500/500 PF couple.
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agree to everything written about your pictures, the birds are impressive, your pictures are excellent
Thank you very much Thomas and Bruno :)
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Wonderful photos of these birds.
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Wonderful photos of these birds.
Thank you very much Anthony :)