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| Peregrine Falcon : Milnerton, Cape Town |
Not once. Not twice. But many times. From the front, the left, the right. A geometry of arrival. A choreography of presence.
I’ve seen this behaviour before. My neighbour. But today, it wasn’t just a sighting. It was a visitation. A ritual. A reminder.
The Peregrine does not linger. It arrives with velocity, with precision, with no need for permission. It does not ask to be seen. It simply is.
And I stood still. I did not reach for the lens. Not at first. I received the moment before I captured it. I let the presence arrive before I named it.
This is the shift. From striving to stillness. From performance to presence. From the need to prove, to the grace of being.
The images re not trophies, but as thresholds. Each one a portal into a different dimension of becoming.
This is not about birds. This is about being.
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| Peregrine Falcon : Milnerton, Cape Town |
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| Peregrine Falcon : Milnerton, Cape Town |
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| Peregrine Falcon : Milnerton, Cape Town |
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| Peregrine Falcon : Milnerton, Cape Town |
Location: Diep River, Woodbridge Island, Table Bay Nature Reserve
Canon Camera / Lens for Bird Photography
Canon Camera / Lens for Bird Photography
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II (APS-C)
- Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM Lens
- SanDisk Extreme PRO 64GB 200 MB/s
Exposure / Focus Settings for Bird Photography
- Autofocus On
- Manual Mode
- Aperture f/5.6
- Auto ISO 200 - 320
- Shutter Speed 1/2500s
- No Image Stabilisation
- Handheld
Image Post-Processing: Lightroom Classic (Ver 14.5)
- Minor Adjustments (Crop / Exposure / Contrast)
- Noise and Spot Removal
- RAW to JPEG Conversion