December 27, 2013 Red-Necked Spurfowl, Kruger National Park, South Africa
Red-Necked Spurfowl
Kruger National Park, South Africa
Canon EOS 1D X, 500 f4 & 1.4x III, 1/1000 sec, f5.6, ISO 640
Image taken on March 24, 2013.
Spurfowl are interesting chicken-sized African birds. This red-necked spurfowl hen and chick waited patiently on a road in Kruger National Park as I got down to ground level to make this image. The chick was illuminated nicely by a sliver of light coming through a gap in the brush and was a bit further away from me than the hen. Because they weren't moving, I was able to take two images, one with the chick's eye in focus and one with the hen's eye in focus, and then combined them by hand in Photoshop to have an image with both eyes in sharp focus.
