https://pho.tography.org/tags/birds/ Recent content in birds on pho.tography.org Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pho.tography.org/shooting-a-griffon-vulture-from-behind-why-the-back-view-beats-the-portrait/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pho.tography.org/shooting-a-griffon-vulture-from-behind-why-the-back-view-beats-the-portrait/ The instinct with any big raptor is to get the face. Wait for the head-on stare, fill the frame with the beak, go home. That instinct throws away the best part of a griffon vulture, which is the back. Scapulars and wing coverts laid over each other like roof tiles, every feather a slightly different shade of sand and buff, the whole thing narrowing into near-black flight feathers at the bottom.