I awoke this morning bristling with excitement from the anticipation of driving my new M Coupe today. That was until I looked out the window at the thick 4" blanket of snow that covered Boulder last night. Alas, my drive up Boulder Canyon would have to wait. Instead I spent the day using the breaks between my M Coupe fantasy's organizing and digging through old photos.
I've been wanting to get a zoom lens for the summer and this photo set of a Red Tail Hawk I stumbled on from last year shows the limitations of my 17-85mm lens. I spent a good 30 minutes stalking this hawk on Marshall Mesa. It was early morning and I saw him on the way back to my house. He was aware of my presence the whole time and let me get pretty close, especially once he had the security of being 18 feet above me on a telephone pole. With 85mm I just can't get close enough for real wildlife detail. I had to crop these pretty small to get a good composition which you can tell by how grainy they are.
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