![Western Rueppell's Vulture](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uE8EXBT5orVu3b5U3y27SEOHZdnc-LIH9Qm_T4p4dMrUETs0VRyC9MRcBfhMh1D8h5u8jVj0_5i0Japr0pcBey66RP5RYRQkM6A38GvnSbLpOwbS68Ewv5ze0M96KNjGgkj8pdEI2qv_Efn1DP4nDzZAp3Y_3ie3M0=s0-d)
I'm starting to worry here at the moment that you might be getting sick of photos of flowers, so I thought I'd shock you out of your "flower-daze" with this photo of a vulture. Yes, a vulture! This handsome guy is a Western Rueppell's Vulture, which I know for a fact because I had the good sense to also take a photo of the sign in front of his enclosure at the
San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park. These guys come from the northern two-thirds of Africa...so the sign says. (I'm not an
ornithologist yet.)
If you're wondering how I got this photo looking like this, after adjusting for white balance and color in Photoshop, I then created some layers to help me darken the background, and I finished up by putting some "omni" lights in a couple of places that I wanted lightened up. Had to do all of this because the zoo wouldn't let me take him to the studio for a photo shoot.
See this Western Rueppell's Vulture in all his glory in the
Birds Photo Gallery.
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