"Lunch with your buddies..."

[Jannard]

This was shot out the window on the island... 300mm 4K, 1/125th shutter, 24 fps, ISO 320. It will look light here due to the maddening QT gamma issues.

Jim

[Jannard]

QT1http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/9_2keaglexmastermini.movQT2

[Greg M]

I dont know why but seeing a Bald Eagle in the wild has always excited me.

[Jim Exton]

Most people don't get to shoot that everyday. Great shot.

[jaadgy akanni]

What happened? I wanna see it :-(

[Manfred Lopez]

Maybe this should be made into the Official Red Crest (The eagle is obviously Red and the carcass can signify the competition):

[Shawn Nelson]

Ah nice!! Jim, that is a badass shot :-). How did you get it? Were you camped out for it or did you stumble upon it?

[Jannard]

I woke up this morning and my fiancee told me to get my ass out of bed and fire up the camera!

I turned it on and decided to shoot out the window instead of risking the moment. An elk had gone down (old age?) near the house and by the time we got up, about 12 eagles (and about 20 crows) had taken it to bones. I can only imagine what it was like 3 hours earlier!

I'm happy I got something, but I will always wonder what it would have been like if I had been up a few hours earlier...

I'm glad I keep a 300mm handy...

Jim

[Brook Willard]

I want to be somewhere where eagles eat fallen elk outside my window. I don't even have squirrels around here! :)

That's really fantastic footage.

[Jannard]

If you save it (right click) and pay it... it should look correct.

Jim

[Manfred Lopez]

...but I will always wonder what it would have been like if I had been up a few hours earlier...


Maybe something like this: :biggrin:

[Elizabeth]

Was that shot in AK or in the Northwest?

[Mike Prevette]

Not much light out there this morning. It was pretty bleak here in Seattle.

[Greg M]

I woke up this morning and my fiancee told me to get my ass out of bed

Congrats!

[Jannard]

Was that shot in AK or in the Northwest?

We are in the San Juan Islands, Washington. There are Mouflon sheep, Sika elk, Fallow deer, bald eagles, Peregrine falcons, mink, Orca whales (summer), owls, big-ass seals, and crows here. Plus, a couple of cats and our dogs... no one else. It is the absolute opposite of Orange County.

Jim

[Mark Thorpe]

What no Sharks? Must be bleak......hehehe

[Elizabeth]

Having spent time on Cortez Island in the Queen Charlotte's and up in Alaska, I understand the magic of waking up to seven bald eagles in the tree above my head with sea otters cracking oysters 5 ft. from my ear. Or having a Coastal Brown Bear walk into camp. Nothing like it!

[Casey Green]

We are in the San Juan Islands, Washington. There are Mouflon sheep, Sika elk, Fallow deer, bald eagles, Peregrine falcons, mink, Orca whales (summer), owls, big-ass seals, and crows here. Plus, a couple of cats and our dogs... no one else. It is the absolute opposite of Orange County.

Jim

Sounds a similar to where my Aunt and Uncle live (Puget Island, WA). My plan is to one day be able to go up there and capture some breathtaking wildlife (with a RED ONE, of course).

Thanks for sharing the captured moment.

[Jannard]

"Everywhere I go there are these damn crows..."

http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/9_dfwms.jpg

[Larry McKee]

I dont know why but seeing a Bald Eagle in the wild has always excited me.

I rode my motorcycle up to Maine to help a riding buddy move. We decided to take a break from packing and went for a ride. Just south of the Canadian border, we happened across a Bald Eagle nest. We stopped and for two hours we watched a couple of fledgling eaglets learning to fly. Mesmerizing.

[Daniel Reichenbach]

Jim, you now what the best information about this great shot is? That your fiancee still speaks to you. She must be a great woman, that she isn't angry to a man who has a second love beside her: REDone.

[Jannard]

I have witnessed the most incredible thing... (before RED). A mating pair of bald eagles soared to great heights, locked talons... and did a free fall together to about 100' before separating. It was a religious experience. Truly. You read about this stuff... I saw it.

Jim

[Jannard]

Jim, you now what the best information about this great shot is? That your fiancee still speaks to you. She must be a great woman, that she isn't angry to a man who has a second love beside her: REDone.

If you knew how lucky I really am...

Jim

[Larry McKee]

I have witnessed the most incredible thing... (before RED). A mating pair of bald eagles soared to great heights, locked talons... and did a free fall together to about 100' before separating. It was a religious experience. Truly.

Jim

That would be incredible to see. I was riding through Colorado once and looked over just in time to watch a golden eagle snatch a fish out of a pond and thought that was something.

[Bob Franco]

Jim,

Here's a quick and dirty crow removal. Don't want those ugly crows messing up a beautiful eagle picture! And thanks for your hard work.


Bob
#2258

[Nathan Garofalos]

There is a bald eagle nest about 15 minutes away from my house, but if you take the boat its like 7 minutes away, and you can get closer when your on the boat. Or you could go across the lake and find a different nest. I'm lucky though, I get to see bears every day!!!

[Jeff Kilgroe]

"Everywhere I go there are these damn crows..."

http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/9_dfwms.jpg


Excellent footage! I love this shot.

[Jannard]

This is 50 yards from the house...

Jim

[Elizabeth]

I have witnessed the most incredible thing... (before RED). A mating pair of bald eagles soared to great heights, locked talons... and did a free fall together to about 100' before separating. It was a religious experience. Truly. You read about this stuff... I saw it.

Jim

I have witness a similar experience of mating eagles ... it was also deeply connected moment in time (a much longer story than is to be told here) ... the two did their dive several times and for three of those dives they ending their free-fall no more than 50 ft. above my head ... ZOWIE ZING!!
Those types of unforgettable moments have the power to transform.

[Jannard]

I have witness a similar experience of mating eagles ... it was also deeply connected moment in time (a much longer story than is to be told here) ... the two did their dive several times and for three of those dives they ending their free-fall no more than 50 ft. above my head ... ZOWIE ZING!!
Those types of unforgettable moments have the power to transform.

I have not yet to hear of anyone else seeing this in person. To say it is a moving experience is an under-statement.

Jim

[Elizabeth]

Yah Man!

[Nathan Garofalos]

It reminds me of something you would see on Planet Earth when they would do the bios on how somethign is shot. Its like where a cameraman waits for weeks just trying to get one shot. Then when you see it, you get goose bumps.

[Daniel Reichenbach]

If you knew how lucky I really am...

Jim

Just an idea: show her how to operate the camera, so next time, you can sleep ;-)

[Jannard]

Describing it is a bit like describing childbirth... if you have seen it, you know. If you haven't...

Jim

[Nathan Garofalos]

i've never seen either, but i bet both would look amazing if they were filmed with a REDone!

[Elizabeth]

Ha! So true!

In my case, the event was tied to the death passing of of one of my dear friends, an amazing man who taught me so much about the magic of life.
Cheers to the Circle of Life!

[Daniel Reichenbach]

Describing it is a bit like describing childbirth... if you have seen it, you know. If you haven't...

Jim

There was always a notion, an idea, a feeling: to be behind the camera, to take all this risk, to fail, not to record the picture, you had in mind, and then, at the end, you can't fail, this is the real magic, why I can't do something else than to be behind the camera, to tell stories, to stay behind the camera is like the rebirth of purity... ok, sorry for my english, not so easy to say what I realy would like to say. If I have my RED, I will tell you my thoughts in pictures ;-)

[Jannard]

There was always a notion, an idea, a feeling: to be behind the camera, to take all this risk, to fail, not to record the picture, you had in mind, and then, at the end, you can't fail, this is the real magic, why I can't do something else than to be behind the camera, to tell stories, to stay behind the camera is like the rebirth of purity... ok, sorry for my english, not so easy to say what I realy would like to say. If I have my RED, I will tell you my thoughts in pictures ;-)

Your 1st RED camera is coming soon... I'd love to hear/see what you have in mind.

Jim

[Rick Darge]

"Everywhere I go there are these damn crows..."

http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/9_dfwms.jpg

that's a rad photo

[Bob Franco]

Jim,

I think I know the feeling you're describing. Earlier this year I was driving south on Highway 1 in Big Sur a few miles south of Nepenthe. On a slow section of highway several hundred feet above the ocean, I saw something dark and large out of the corner of my eye. At first I thought it was the wing tip of an airplane but when I turned my head I saw a huge bird, a Condor! For two or three seconds it was right next to me. I could see its eye. I pulled over and ran back to see the bird. I was lucky enough to see it circle and soar right by me, almost close enough to touch. The sheer size of the Condor was incredible as was its grace in the air. Afterwards I felt compelled to tell everyone I ran into that day about my experience. It is something I'll never forget.

Bob

[peter roehsler]

If you save it (right click) and pay it... it should look correct.

Jim

mine played for free :-)

[Elizabeth]

I also believe that visual medium expresses the visceral better than words ever can ... but only if one is willing to journey to the place where real magic happens and then open their eyes to see.

[Andrew Benz]

Great shots Jim... I have access to an incredible bald eagle habitat at Lake DeGray in Ar... so I cannot wait. And too think that I was thinking of not getting the 300mm.

Have a great holiday... you are a very lucky man.

[Elizabeth]

I want to be somewhere where eagles eat fallen elk outside my window. I don't even have squirrels around here! :)

That's really fantastic footage.

Keep your eyes open because you never know ... once while walking through the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens in the depth of winter, I saw a huge hawk catch and completely consume a grey squirrel on the lower limb of a old tree while moms pushed babies in strollers beneath it.

[Nathan Garofalos]

I also believe that visual medium expresses the visceral better than words ever can ... but only if one is willing to journey to the place where real magic happens and then open their eyes to see.

Music also can pull out an emotion that you may say is indescribable. But when you combine music and visuals together, the suspension of disbelief enters a new realm of feelings you can only experience through movie magic.

[Elizabeth]

and I suppose that is why we feel so compelled to do it!

[Nathan Garofalos]

I couldn't agree more.

[Sanjin Jukic]

Great shots, nice lens and also the beautiful San Juan Islands (http://www.guidetosanjuans.com/maps.htm).


http://www.guidetosanjuans.com/images/maps/VGIslands_sm.jpg

[RivaiC]

The crows remind me of Resident Evil movie. I hope Jim is not yet infected by the virus. I guess he's the highly wanted target. But if u can clone like yourself in the movie, imagine what would become of RED ONE ?

10x the current development ?

[Jim McKinney]

It's truly exciting to know that I'll be getting a Red camera and what that can do to the career side of the equation.

The other half of the equation is what opportunities it provides for the more personal side of this filmmaker. Bald eagles on the San Juans. Nice.

[MikeHedge]

damn that's perfect focus...

[Simon Valderrama]

hey ... has this been shot with the newer RED?
with a 2K/4K still we could take a look at the new optimized blue channel!
:biggrin:

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

Beautiful.. urgh.. yeah, beautiful! :).

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

I have witnessed the most incredible thing... (before RED). A mating pair of bald eagles soared to great heights, locked talons... and did a free fall together to about 100' before separating. It was a religious experience. Truly. You read about this stuff... I saw it.

Jim

This is a good sign...

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

There was always a notion, an idea, a feeling: to be behind the camera, to take all this risk, to fail, not to record the picture, you had in mind, and then, at the end, you can't fail, this is the real magic, why I can't do something else than to be behind the camera, to tell stories, to stay behind the camera is like the rebirth of purity... ok, sorry for my english, not so easy to say what I realy would like to say. If I have my RED, I will tell you my thoughts in pictures ;-)

"Words are very.. unnecesary... they can only do harm...".

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

Oops, 4 auteur posts in a row :clown2: ... maybe I should've edited my original one... but...

An inspiring thread!...

[Miguel "Macgregor" De Olaso]

SOrry to say this, but i see vignetting.

[Yaque Silva-Doyle]

That is a great picture Jim, it reminds me very much of back home. I am from northern california (mendocino county) and if I was lucky I would see such a sight on my way to school sum mornings.
cheers,

[HD Hildebrand]

"Everywhere I go there are these damn crows..."


I've shot many rituals and sacred ceremonies in your neighborhood (Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands) with the Coast Salish and Kwagiuth Indians. After one shoot a "crow" or "raven" kept dive bombing at my head in downtown Victoria - wouldn't bother anyone else - only me. The Native Elders had a good laugh at this one.

"The Raven in Kwaguilth culture is known as the sky messenger of the animal kingdom. The Raven is famous for being a somewhat mischievous glutton. He was always out to please himself and have a good time, but his adventures always ended up bettering mankind."

Could be good fortune to have a lot of messengers around us - sometimes we just have to listen to what the message is.

Peace,
Dale

[planet e]

ah, at last, a RED camera is finally speaking my language...frankly, i could care less about nubile nymphets and hot cars...

glad you found some time to take a break and experience something sacred. there's nothing more profound than the wild revealing itself to you--having a 300mm lens on hand can certainly add to that experience...

on the other end of the natural world, i really want someone to push the macro feature on that 18-50mm and report back. been waiting and waiting.

this image is the first one i've seen to make me feel really impatient for my camera. thanks, jim, now my perfect patience is ruined. rrrrrrrr.....

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

I've shot many rituals and sacred ceremonies in your neighborhood (Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands) with the Coast Salish and Kwagiuth Indians. After one shoot a "crow" or "raven" kept dive bombing at my head in downtown Victoria - wouldn't bother anyone else - only me. The Native Elders had a good laugh at this one.

"The Raven in Kwaguilth culture is known as the sky messenger of the animal kingdom. The Raven is famous for being a somewhat mischievous glutton. He was always out to please himself and have a good time, but his adventures always ended up bettering mankind."

Could be good fortune to have a lot of messengers around us - sometimes we just have to listen to what the message is.

Peace,
Dale

The ancient Greeks had special kind of priests. They were called something like bird-fortune-tellers and predicted the future by observing the behavior of birds. [or "augurs", but that's different and "augur" is Roman]

My bird-fortunetelling instinct tells me that it's a good thing. Maybe the Universe is telling us that it's time to mate, or that our current partner is the one and we should make the big step.

You never know... "Always in motion the future is"...

Anyway, it's a good thing. Take an amateur bird-fortuneteller's advice on this, if you want :sarcasm:.


P.S. I once saw a UFO making some strange maneuvers in the sky. Then I ran to a UFO-fortuneteller and she told me that maybe it's time for me to fly off. :alien:

P.P.S. Happy holidays! :clown2:

[albert rudnicki]

"Everywhere I go there are these damn crows..."

http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/9_dfwms.jpg

More and more I am convinced that soon my DSLR will cover with dust.
Can't wait for the pocket red.

[Axel Mertes]

Hey guys,

reading between the lines I have following "picture" of the situation we are all in:

1. RED sales gave me a very important Email just 2 hours ago (you know, THE email, like that phone call of the coming baby).

2. Jim is on VACATION.

What could that mean?

I keep my picture myself :)

Axel

[Bob England]

We are in the San Juan Islands, Washington. There are Mouflon sheep, Sika elk, Fallow deer, bald eagles, Peregrine falcons, mink, Orca whales (summer), owls, big-ass seals, and crows here. Plus, a couple of cats and our dogs... no one else. It is the absolute opposite of Orange County.

Jim

That's one heck of a commute; from the San Juan Islands to Lake Forrest in OC. Hope you don't do it daily! :sad:

[Zach Hilton]

If you knew how lucky I really am...

Jim

I met her at NAB. Very very nice young lady. I wish you the best of luck!

[Clint Johnson]

Those would be ravens harassing the eagle- twice the size of a crow and twice as smart. A lot smarter than the eagle in fact.

We have bald eagles around here pretty much all the time and the occasional golden eagles that are half again bigger than the bald eagle... somewhere I have pictures of them fighting over a deer carcass out on the lake where the golden eagle fought off four bald eagles to eat its fill- then the bald eagles ate their fill - then the ravens got their share- then the stellar jays- and then the chickadees came in for the clean up.

Then there was the swan that just couldn't make the trek south for the winter.

http://www.clint-johnson.com/images/Article_illustration/I_Am_Back/Swan-Soft-Focus-2.jpg


It fought the eagle off for a few days but then one morning the fight was over.

http://www.clint-johnson.com/images/Article_illustration/I_Am_Back/Swan-Eagle-Lunch.jpg

And the swan wasn't so pretty any more.

http://www.clint-johnson.com/images/Article_illustration/I_Am_Back/Swan-Nature-Soft-Focus.jpg

I've seen them mating, fighting, diving right under water after a salmon (and having to swim a couple hundred meters to shore after dunking themselves). They are particularly hard on the ducklings in the spring since they are slower and can't stay under water long enough so they are easy pickings when they are little.

I even have some crappy Hi8 footage of an eagle smashing its way through about three centimeters of ice to get at a dead fish floating up against the bottom of the ice. It would rise up into the air about three meters and then drive its clenched "fists" into the ice until it broke... that's hungry.

[Elizabeth]

Could be good fortune to have a lot of messengers around us - sometimes we just have to listen to what the message is.



I suppose it may depend on whether you are being dive bombed by an eagle or a raven or a chickadee, but I find that most often a message from birds
is a re-enforcement that one is "On Track" in one's life and efforts (or just right time right place).

Also an eagle in my dreams once told me that "There can be no Fear while Flying"

... so I would conclude that Jim's eagle encounters are indeed auspicious ...

Mmmmmm. I see grand and powerful things are ahead for RED!:sorcerer: :sarcasm:

[Clint Johnson]

I tend to see the presence of a particular species of avian in a given locale to mean that the environmental conditions of that ecosystem coincide with the prevailing conditions in which that avian species evolved... but I'm funny that way.

[Elizabeth]

I tend to see the presence of a particular species of avian in a given locale to mean that the environmental conditions of that ecosystem coincide with the prevailing conditions in which that avian species evolved... but I'm funny that way.

Yep! That too!

[Paul Leeming]

I've shot many rituals and sacred ceremonies in your neighborhood (Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands) with the Coast Salish and Kwagiuth Indians. After one shoot a "crow" or "raven" kept dive bombing at my head in downtown Victoria - wouldn't bother anyone else - only me. The Native Elders had a good laugh at this one.

"The Raven in Kwaguilth culture is known as the sky messenger of the animal kingdom. The Raven is famous for being a somewhat mischievous glutton. He was always out to please himself and have a good time, but his adventures always ended up bettering mankind."

Could be good fortune to have a lot of messengers around us - sometimes we just have to listen to what the message is.

Peace,
Dale
I've always had a fascination with crows and ravens.... so your story is inspiring to me :)

http://www.visceralpsyche.com/misc/web_images/IMG_0447a_framed_sRGB_25.jpg

Cheers,

Paul

[IAN SUN]

That is one stellar Black Bird.
Gorgeous shot Paul.

[Curran Giddens]

I met her at NAB. Very very nice young lady. I wish you the best of luck!

Was she the one wearing the all-white outfit? I didn't go to NAB, but I think I have a pic somewhere....

EDIT: Not sure who took the pic, but here it is....

[Mark B.]

We are in the San Juan Islands, Washington. There are Mouflon sheep, Sika elk, Fallow deer, bald eagles, Peregrine falcons, mink, Orca whales (summer), owls, big-ass seals, and crows here. Plus, a couple of cats and our dogs... no one else. It is the absolute opposite of Orange County.

Jim

Probably the most amazing animal I've seen in the wild was a "big skate", which surfaced next to our dingy just after we'd paddled away from the shore of Spencer Spit on Lopez. It must have been at least six feet long from tip to tail, three feet wide or so. It just stared at me for a minute, within arm's reach, and then submerged. I spooked one of its babies camouflaged near my feet back at the shore, and I think the mother came by to let me know that it would cut me up if I wasn't more careful about where I waded in the future.

Oh, and the mice on the islands... so many mice. While I was camping on Sucia, all night long I had mice running under the tent through a dip between the ground and the tent floor - a space which just happened to be where my head was situated. I don't think there are many things quite as freaky as feeling a wild rodent running back and forth against your head.