old Europa!

Wow these look so cool! I’ve never seen photos at night of figures! The sky looks beautiful

Simply gorgeous. The red feathers reflect the sunset color against that purple darkening sky.

Many thanks to you three Pardo, Jolie and Paige!

Stunning photos, and a really beautiful night sky!

Gorgeous rouge gorge!

In this photo the night is coming, for the robin.

Beautiful job.

Many thanks to you three Bonnie, Rogério and Fernando!

Roger wrote:

Gorgeous rouge gorge!

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raptors little story!

.. at least!.. after long hours to scan the prairie, the Common buzzard caught a big rabbit!..

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 .. but an eagle-owl felt from the cliff..

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 .. and invited himself for dinner!..

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 no way to resist the Prince of the night!..

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 .. and the poor buzzard just has to back to its chase..

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 ..as the eagle-owl is going to dinner..

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 .. but..

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 .. an other guest!..

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 no way to resist the king himself!..

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better to wait the coming of the night!..


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(common buzzards from Schleich and Bullyland(open wings), rabbit and eagle-owl from Schleich, golden eagles from Schleich and Preiser(open wings))

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Oh that's great, one after another! I especially like the clever swapping of figures to change the pose for the 'same' bird to construct a realistic sequence and give a better illusion of movement between shots, I don't suppose there's too many species with multiple matching models to do that with.

Great day in southern France and excellent pics and story Alain  

Wonderful story

Lucky rabbit that he is in such high demand! Would a buzzard normally be afraid of an eagle-owl? Probably, even crows win against buzzards.

Beautiful sunny photos! It's still cold, rainy and windy here.

George wrote:

Oh that's great, one after another! I especially like the clever swapping of figures to change the pose for the 'same' bird to construct a realistic sequence and give a better illusion of movement between shots, I don't suppose there's too many species with multiple matching models to do that with.

 Thank you George! :)

 Using different poses to suggest movement would be surely easier with tigers, bears or lions models!

Kikimalou wrote:

Great day in southern France and excellent pics and story Alain  

 Thank you Christophe! :)

SUSANNE wrote:

Wonderful story

 Thank you Susanne! :)

Wow mon ami, how do you get these shots with the owl in flight apparently unattached to anything, and even the shadow in the rocks is also non attached!!

rogerpgvg wrote:

Lucky rabbit that he is in such high demand! Would a buzzard normally be afraid of an eagle-owl? Probably, even crows win against buzzards.

Beautiful sunny photos! It's still cold, rainy and windy here.

 Thank you Roger! :)
 
 Eagle-owl is a super predator and often chase during the day, I met it twice and it's very impressive!..

 Yes, today was clear and hot here, the more I walked, the more I got out clothes to just keep t-shirt (and trouser of course!)

Pardofelis wrote:

Wow mon ami, how do you get these shots with the owl in flight apparently unattached to anything, and even the shadow in the rocks is also non attached!!

    just guess my friend!

a wonderful and exiting story Alain, told in superb photos!
(I've been trying to guess how you took the 'airborne' shots too )

These are wonderful and I love the story to go along with it! Those rocks are certainly the perfect spot for photos and they don't look out of scale. That Preiser eagle is gorgeous! I've never seen it before.

Superb photos and storytelling!

sunny wrote:

a wonderful and exiting story Alain, told in superb photos!
(I've been trying to guess how you took the 'airborne' shots too )

 ..so?..   thank you Annette!

Joliezac wrote:

These are wonderful and I love the story to go along with it! Those rocks are certainly the perfect spot for photos and they don't look out of scale. That Preiser eagle is gorgeous! I've never seen it before.

 Thank you Jolie! and you're right, it's a perfect spot to avoid scales distortions! :)

Saarlooswolfhound wrote:

Superb photos and storytelling!

 Thank you Paige! :)