Huge bird of prey looks directly into the camera as it swoops over a lake in amazing photo

An amateur photographer has captured an incredible image of a bald eagle staring straight into the camera with a perfectly symmetrical reflection in the water below.

Steve Biro, 53, was shooting photos at the at a nature conservation area when an eagle named Bruce was brought out.

‘I was so excited when they brought Bruce out as the water was fairly calm and I knew I might get a decent reflection,’ says Steve, from Windsor, Canada.

‘I love getting reflections from a low vantage point and hoped to get a couple of decent pics of Bruce.

‘He flew across the pond several times,’ said Steve. 

‘He was flying close enough to my head to feel the breeze from his wings but I was determined to keep shooting.

Bruce the bald eagle brushes the glassy surface of the pond with his wingtip feathers as it banks slightly at the Canadian Raptor Conservancy in Ontario

‘I have many wonderful images from the visit but I loved the symmetry of this one in particular and the way he is staring right through me and looking mean and powerful just blew me away.’

Steve, who took up photography ten years ago, was at the Canadian Raptor Conservancy in Ontario when he captured the images two weeks ago.

Steve shot the photos on his Canon 5D Mark IV and a Canon 100M L macro lens. The symmetrical shot was captured at f/7.1, 1/2000s and ISO 2500.

The mighty bald eagle leaves the slightest of ripples as he skims over a pond at the Canadian Raptor Conservancy in Ontario, where amateur photographer Steve Biro captured these images

‘He was flying close enough to my head to feel the breeze from his wings but I was determined to keep shooting,’ said photographer Steve Biro 

The bald eagle banks into a turn over the pond at the Canadian Raptor Conservancy in Ontario, as photographed by amateur snapper Steve Biro

Bruce the bald eagle lands on the shore after his stunning swoop over a pond at the Canadian Raptor Conservancy in Ontario