Theme Mother and Son (C)

[Glenn Conlan]

Shot this a few years ago at San Diego Wild Animal Park. The mother is Kokomo and her new son is Monroe

D300 200-400mm at 260mm
F4
1/125 sec
ISO 200
Monopod

Thanks for your comments

[Tobie Schalkwyk]

Beautiful, Glenn! Peaceful & passionate as can be. Nice crop too.

[Loi Nguyen]

Lovely portrait here and you handled the exposure well. Sharpness is great. I find the crop just a tad tight. If you have more room all around, it may be good to explore wider crop. Loi

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Glenn - a very nice portrait of mother and child. She posed nicely and portrait was the way to go here. I do wish you had zoomed out slightly to get the top of the head completely in, given a small amount of room behind the mother's head and a little more room on the lhs too. If it were mine I would drop the reds/magentas overall and also the blues on the mom.

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TFS,
Rachel

[Ian Cassell]

I love this portrait, Glenn. Composition works very well.

[Gabriela Plesea]

Hello Glenn,

I was going to welcome you to BPN Wildlife but then I noticed you've been around since 2009:S3:. Such tender moment captured and I am very taken with the way the little one clings tightly to his mother - I really enjoyed viewing, image well processed, I do hope you participate more in this forum, in terms of critique I completely agree with Rachel and Loi above.

Kind regards,