Eagle on the Mississippi River Bluff

Copyright Nathan Montgomery, 2008

Today, I spent an hour or so on the banks of the Mississippi River with Stephanie and her dad. The weather warmed to a balmy 37 degrees, which gave us a chance to enjoy the outdoors before a heavy early afternoon fog settled in.

We pulled out our Canons and tried to take some shots of the many eagles taking advantage of a rare break in the ice just below the lock in Dubuque. Overall, my efforts were a monumental failure- even maxing out the zoom on my borrowed 100-300mm lens left me not nearly as tight on the eagles as I wanted to be. As a result, this image is heavily cropped, which cost me a lot of sharpness. Those who have their browsers set to a large view format may be fairly disappointed with this image- the resolution just isn't there to get any bigger than about 4x6.