Common Merganser.

[Karl Egressy]

It was taken on a very windy very cold day. I stayed out only for a short time.
I posted the down wing position earlier. This time it is the up wing pose.
Thanks for looking.
(It snowed again Today.)

Canon 5D M III
Canon 500 f4.0 L IS II. +1.4x III
ISO 800
f5.6
1/1600 s
HH

[David Salem]

I like the pose and the wing position on this shot Karl and I like the grey BG also. The head looks a bit soft and I see some remnant of your PP work below the head. Maybe try to open up the darks on the head a bit and then work the catch light as I think that it is giving the effect of being soft or blurred. Nice job catching this speedster in flight.

[Grace Scalzo]

Karl, You worked so hard on your images this winter, with all the weather that you endured. This is such a hard species to photograph. In this frame, I would like to see a brightness adjustment, a sharper head and eye, the green opened up more, and removal of the cloning artifact under the head. Something odd happened at the top of the head too, maybe a selection that is causing that fuzziness?

[Karl Egressy]

Thanks, Grace and David.
I just switched monitors and now I see what you were talking about.
I fixed the artifacts but unfortunately the head remains soft no matter what I do.