Sanderling Patrolling the Beach.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Sanderlings are a dime a dozen for some of you...but for us, although not rare during fall migration, are still a bird of interest. I see and photograph at least one every year and it remains a special bird to observe. This one stuck around for a few days, and I was able to photograph it one morning before it left the area for more southern pastures. A cloudy morning with slow shutter speeds which rendered the moving leg blurry, but I can live with that:S3:

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/200s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, usual eye work, sponge tool used to tease out some of the faint colours in the BG and FG.

[Walker Noe]

It is always rewarding photographing an uncommon bird. Looks good, it could maybe stand a bit more contrast though. Comp and blurred leg work well for me.

[Karl Egressy]

For this type of images I prefer the leg to be sharp but obviously you did not have the speed/light to do that. Otherwise it is a very nice image, Daniel.

[William Dickson]

Nice looking image Dan. You are doing real well with these waders. Lovely POV, as usual, great control of the whites. Lovely BG and colours throughout.

Will

[Derek Willcox]

Daniel nice and low great detail good BG and that blurry foot looks good show that the bird was moving

[nick clayton]

I love the gentle light and the low angle rendering the background and foreground presantly OOF, as you said not much you could do about the foot, nice image Daniel.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

I love the blurred foot lots.
Nice low POV as per your normal MO Daniel.
Thanks for sharing.