I've spent a lot of time at the Memphis Zoo over the past seven or eight years. One of the ways you get good photographs of anything of course is to go back and shoot it again and again. As my camera technology and personal skill level have improved over time, I have done just that. I don't get good photographs every time I go, but every once in a while something new will present itself with an old familiar subject and it clicks. There are many places that I have visited in my life that I would like to go back and visit again with a pair of high-end Canon cameras over my shoulders. None are in my backyard however (like the zoo) and it's not likely to happen.
There are a couple of Bald Eagles at the zoo and I have photographed them many times. On this occasion she happened to be turned towards me with the light falling just right and a pleasant, simple, background. These birds are rescues. They are in the zoo because they are unable to fend for themselves in the wild. This one had the misfortune of flying into some high-tension wires and injured one wing. If she can't fly then she can't eat, and she would surely die.
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