» Glenn Pure

» Chobe National Park northern section

» Botswana

» May, 2017

» Canon 80D with Canon 100-400mm Mark II L IS USM at 400mm handheld

»Vanellus armatus - Blacksmith Lapwing

»Vanneau armé

» Least Concern

» Manual exposure 1/500 sec, f7.1 ISO 800. Lighting adjustments, NR, cropping and digital lens optimiser applied in Canon DPP 4. Exported 16 bit TIFF file processed in Adobe Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin to reduce noise. Sharpened after final size reduction.