A Seriously Misunderstood Creature

A great capture at the decisive moment

Joli vautour ! Je te souhaite une agréable journée
JP

Beautifully caught. I don't mind them recycling me when I'm gone. It's better than burning.

Vultures are wholly positive! They eat carrion containing bugs that would kill us-and get rid of them for us.

Graceful in flight - super shot!

Good to see your love for these birds, and a great photo with a sense
of humour. A bird of death, sometimes like seeing the spectre of death.

excellent . great capture and I am so glad you processed it in monochrome . super !!!!

image de film noir !! excellent !

wow ! best capture of the great flying
excellent guy !

Lovely B&W capture of this marvelous scavenger! Our world would be much dirtier and less healthy were it not for the efforts of these birds! Well done Jason! ;-)

OO. Well seen, as they say. This is a wild pose. I like the comments too. In the monastery of Tibet, the dead are placed out on a certain outcropping for these birdies, and I adjusted to the idea after a bit. It is the epitomy of no ego attachment to form. Anyway,... how I admire birds in flight captured in photo. I pulled over yesterday hoping to catch some inland pelicans in a thermal updraft -- they were so gorgeous against the stormy gray clouds with their white bodies, & big wing span with black tips... but really disappointed in not having a good enough zoom. :-{

Impressionnante capture.))
Fantastique.

haha they remind me of the vultures from ice age, really funny. great motion capture shot jason.

Ufff...Realmente impresionante,una gran captura.Saludos.

Yet, someone has to clean! If this is not the vulture, who will? :)
I recently read that the Tyrannosaurus Rex was perhaps a scavenger, according to the latest studies ...

great capture of b@w...!!

Beautiful capture and wing motion! Well seen!

This is a great capture Jason and I understand your words completely......they definitely sere a valuable and needed purpose....but also I do chuckle a bit however...I don't know if you are familiar with Tom Waits but on is latest album he has a littel speel he does talking about Vultures and how light they actually are and they have to regurgitate (some of) their food before they can take off..it is arather funny spot...anyway, thanks and I agree with you> Have a rgreat Father's Day !

They do a great service by doing what they do. They are very useful. A fine shot of this guy/gal.

A fantastic shot, and wonderful in this black and white. When I was a little boy, I read a book called "Animals Nobody Loves" that changed by views of vultures, spiders, snakes, etcetera early on. Just because a vulture doesn't have the regal appearance of an eagle doesn't make it less valuable a living thing upon this planet. Great post!

Not the most elegant bird in flight or on the ground, nice picture though.

Beautiful B&W of a vulture. I love the sense of motion!