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International Centre for Birds of Prey Newent UK - Take 3

Images from my latest trip to the wonderful bird sanctuary, ICBP.
This time I wanted to add the human element as well as the birds.

I would like to thank Chris Townsend http://www.christownsendoutdoors.co.uk/ for his help and support - thanks Chris.

I have been using Capture One 4 Pro (standard C1 previously) for the conversions and Lightroom for the JPEGerisations and resizing and renumbering, and goodness does that save time! I know that LR does the conversions, I just like C1. I can synchronize the folder after C1 has done its work. The only down side it appears is that the titles and keywords that I add to the imported into LR files are lost by C1 after conversion to tiff and re synchronized into LR!
I use Genuine Fractals for resizing. I just bought the new V6 and that has batch processing - oh happy days!

Previously I had used C1 then Elements 6 to remove the jessies, re-size, sharpen and save each individually. But this new way is much quicker. Also I decided not to remove the jessies this time; 1, laziness; and 2, they are captive birds after all!

It seems that LR has removed all the EXIF data, and I didn't tick the box either.

This time I used my 200-400 on my D300, rather than my 500VR on D700. It was lighter, but the hand-holding whilst waiting for the little blighters to take off was still an effort. I know, more exercises LOL ;-)

Maybe a monopod would be helpful in this instance, but the lens collar on the 2-4 is (IMHO) too protuberant for hand-holding. I am not a big fan of twisting the blasted thing out the way! It's either on or off! The 500VR is much better to hold with it on!

I will name them soon.

For info and to visit..
http://icbp.org/
Jemima Parry-Jones MBE
Director
International Centre for Birds of Prey
Newent
Gloucestershire GL18 1JJ
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Buzzard landing on post 353
Buzzard landing on post 353		 Buzzard flying 354
Buzzard flying 354		 Buzzard flying 355
Buzzard flying 355		 Buzzard flying 356
Buzzard flying 356
Saker Falcon swooping for lure 357
Saker Falcon swooping for lure 357		 Jemima using lure to attract a bird of prey 358
Jemima using lure to attract a bird of prey 358		 Handler Holly releasing Red Kite from gloved hand in archway 359
Handler Holly releasing Red Kite from gloved hand in archway 359		 Handler Holly releasing Red Kite from gloved hand in archway 360
Handler Holly releasing Red Kite from gloved hand in archway 360
Handler Holly with Red Kite on glove 361
Handler Holly with Red Kite on glove 361		 Red Kite flying 362
Red Kite flying 362		 Red Kite on handlers hand (Holly) 363
Red Kite on handlers hand (Holly) 363		 Red Kite perched on post 364
Red Kite perched on post 364
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