Catch of the day!

[Marc Mol]

An African Fish Eagle with a Tiger fish.
Taken from a boat on the Rufiji River, Selous GR- Tanzania.

D3s 500 f/4 VRII f/5.6 1/1600s ISO800 30% crop, CS5.

C & C most welcome

Cheers
Marc

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Marc, the bird with the most beautiful call, and I could listen to it for hours. Excellent exposure, especially on the whites, and I like how the FE is perched in the open, with no hinder of foliage. I can see a version with you placing the FE a little further into the ULC. Taking a little off the top and LHS will sort that, or of course, recropping the original. But you knew that. :w3

[Martin Dunn]

Beautiful capture Marc.
Love the pose of the eagle and the fish in its talons.
I do find the BG a bit distracting, especially on the LH side, although it does frame the eagles head and neck well.
No doubt everyone will have their own opinions on the crop, personally I think a vertical crop would work well, losing alot of the foliage on the left side and perhaps coming in as far as the fork in the branch on the RH side.

[Bill Dix]

Great pose, nice capture by you and the eagle. I like the head turn, and the talons on the fish. Lots of environment in this, which tends to overpower the subject for me. Might have been tempted to crop a bit further if the IQ holds up.

[John Rowell]

I agree with the previous comments. The large amount of white in the background is distracting so if it could be darkened down would help I think.

[Marina Scarr]

This is quite a fine image and for the most part, the environment works nicely. I think I would tighter up the crop just a little on top by cropping out the upper left white spot. This makes for a good story!

[christopher galeski]

nice capture,good details in the bird,the fish is a bonus,nice pose and perch,agree on some form of cropping.TFS.