Shutterbug Photo of the Day

To capture today’s spectacular Shutterbug Photo of the Day, photographer Sal De Fini had to wait three hours in the cold but he says it was definitely worth it. De Fini is now in the running to win a $1,000 Canon Pixma Pro-1 photo printer or a $500 Gift Certificate from LensRentals.com in our April Photo of the Month contest. Details on how to enter here.

“On the Hudson River in Verplank, NY. Eagles would hunt then take the catch back to an ice float to eat,” De Fini writes about the photo. “They would hop from float to float when other eagles or gulls tried to steal their meal.”

He shot the image with a Nikon D7000 and 80-400mm Nikkor lens with a 1.4x teleconverter. Shutter speed was 1/1600 sec, F/13, ISO 400, with the camera hand held.

You can see a larger version of De Fini’s image in the Shutterbug Photo of the Day gallery here.

If you want to enter Shutterbug Photo of the Day, post an image in the Shutterbug Photo of the Day Gallery and include your real name and some background on the image (how and where it was shot; the story behind the image; gear and settings used etc.) in the description field to qualify.

We will select one Shutterbug Photo of the Day image every month to run as a full-page feature in the magazine.