Whidbey Island Sunrise

We had two beautiful sunrises on Whidbey Island, I'll post the other one another day.  Absolutely gorgeous.  I've been busy editing photos of portraits I did for the kids at work, so I haven't been posting as frequently.  It may be slow for another 2 weeks as we are shooting a wedding this weekend.  Exciting times.

More Eagle Shots

On Whidbey Island this weekend the Eagle made a close sweep by looking for some food.

Fish On

Went Fishing with my uncle and his cousin on Sunday.  It was a fabulous time (isn't it always when you catch a fish?).  My cousin was able to land a 17.5 lb King Salmon.  Pretty awesome.  Here is a picture of me with it.  And then there are some pictures of the Eagle coming down and grabbing some of the guts while we were cleaning it.

Some more Eagle Photos

Deb and I were walking down to the beach to watch the sunset when we heard a lot of crows, and we looked up and it looked like they were trying to attack something. Then we looked down and sure enough there were a bunch of people with cameras looking up into the tree the crows were attacking. So we hurried up and got to where we could see the eagle sitting in the tree. It's amazing how close the eagle lets everyone get.  As the sun was almost setting it was fabulous light for taking portraits.

Eagle Swoops

My friend put a turkey leg on the beach with the hopes that an eagle or other big bird would swoop down and grab it up and we could get some pictures of it.  After watching it for 20 minutes are so we were starting to get board and walked a little ways away, and almost instantly the eagle started down for the turkey leg.  I got some great shots of the eagle in its decent.

Fly by, to scout out the location

Attack mode, the poor turkey leg doesn't stand a chance

Landing gear down, time to grab and go

That's what I call a fast food.  (click to view larger)

Time to fly home like nothing just happened

It was just so amazing to watch, I only wish that my camera could take pictures faster, so I could have gotten more in between shots.