Juvenile Wood Stork

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image a while back on a morning trip to Lake Mirror in Lakeland. Florida. The Wood Stork family was a wonderful surprise. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 320mm (480mm FFE)
1/2000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering 0 EV ISO 800
Post processed in Lightroom 5 and Photoshop Elements 10
Cropped for composition

[William Dickson]

A lovely image Joe. The details on the bill, neck and head area are perfect. Great looking pose aswell. Nice work and thanks for sharing

[stuart wanuck]

did well nice job joe

[Robert Kimbrell]

Like the textures you caught in head and bill. The eye look excellent, Not sure how much processing you did there, but you really brought out light in those dark eyes. A well chosen comp, nicely displays the bill and head features of this unique bird. I would have cropped fractionally lower, as you cut off the tips of top layer of the chest feathers.