Preening

[Mike Tracy]

Royal Tern- Ft. Desoto. MKIII, 500mm, 1/1250, f/6.3, ISO 500

[Marina Scarr]

Absolutely LOVE this preening pose. The mound of sand and graduated BG are killer. I would personally like to see a little more room on the right for the tail and a tad shaved off of the top. The catch light immediately looked added to my eyes but I think it is pretty well placed.

[Robert Kimbrell]

A very attractive shot, I also like the graduated background. It made me think It was taken At FT. Desoto. before I read it was. A nice pose.

[Holger Leyrer]

Wonderful preening pose. The exposure works good and i love the colors and BG.
I agree with Marina, ".... little more room on the right for the tail and a tad shaved off of the top ... "

[Frank Schauf]

Excellent shot with very nice soft background.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Lovely preening pose, great exposure, colors and background.

[John Robinson]

Echo above comments. I feell a littl more room all around would be nice but no big deal
Cheers
John

[Diane Miller]

Gorgeous pose and BG! I agree that a little more right and left would look good. Easy enough to manufacture if you didn't have it and not against your ethics.

[Emanuel Tiberi]

Exposure is great and the BG leaves me speachless. I have to agree with Marina

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Very good soft light, great details on both blacks and whites, a cool preening pose and clean BG. Every thing is great in this one, I just wish for more room all around the bird.

[Mike Tracy]

Repost per ya'lls suggestions, thank you for your input. I had to initially compose this file tight and subsequently crop tighter due to a couple other Terns on either side. Marina, their originally was a very faint catchlight which I tried to make more prominent, maybe I overdid it and in the repost tried to achieve a compromise between the two.

[Danny Laredo]

Wonderful pose.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Repost works better for me and I love this preening pose. I see them do this a lot and you got it great with a nice ha and feathers in the bill.