Big Beef Bald Eagles (May 15, 2025)
Two sets of new work in one week? Amazing, but I notice that the tides were good to visit Big Beef in Seabeck and check out the eagles, and they did not disappoint. I only spent 30 minutes there because, well, it started raining, but in that 30 minutes I took 400+ shots. After editing and processing, I ended up with 25 keepers - 24 of them with Bald Eagles and one Glacous-winged gull because, well, why not?
I’ve gotten comfortable enough in Lightroom (the cloud/mobile edition that I shifted to a few months ago) that I can cull and edit a 400 image set down to finals and publish them in about 2 hours. Not bad at all, and I’m happy with the resulting quality and how Lightroom organizes things for me.
I was there from a tide level of about +1 to -1, which is about optimal for that location (tides above 2’ most of the area the birds hunt is covered, and below -2, I find the birds get too distant for good photography).
About ten eagles were around, about 2/3 immature birds, and I always find their plumage fun to study, and there was a fair bit of grumpiness going on as they argued among themselves.
