Northern Pintail: Back to the Bosque

[Doug Brown]

I'm headed back to Bosque del Apache this weekend for a private workshop with a client. It'll be my first time back this season, and I'm really looking forward to it! Reuniting with old friends at the Festival and freezing my butt off at the early morning fly-outs. Here's a shot from 2 years ago that I never processed until just now; a Northern Pintail drake photographed at the Bosque in November of 2014.

Canon 1Dx, 600mm + 1.4x, f/5.6, 1/3200, ISO 640, manual exposure, hand held

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[Chris Elliott]

Doug, beautiful work as always. Love the background and how the Pintail really jumps out of the image.

Chris

[John Whaley]

Awesome shot. Pintails are the most wary of ducks here and getting one up close and personal is really challenging. Great light, bg, detail and focus.

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent pose and sharpness, the BG makes it really stand out

[Bill Dix]

Terrific flight pose, with speculum showing nicely. Well captured.

[Brian Desjardins]

Hi Doug, Beautiful shot, great pose,nice and sharp, love the creamy BG. Was just at the Bosque last weekend was awesome, FYI birds are a bit late this year from what a ranger was telling me more to be expected over the next few weeks, there was "only" 3k snow geese that arrived when they peek around 8k, decided not to go to the Festival with 100k people expected over the 5 days going to wait a bit when there's going to be less people. North lake was spectacular for sunrise and sunset! Good luck this weekend and Happy shooting!


Brian

[Joe Subolefsky]

Beautiful.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Sits back, admires and smiles. About as perfect as it gets. Thank you for sharing, Doug.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

This is simply a spectacular flight image, with a beautiful BG.

Geoffrey




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[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent flight shot. Superb IQ. Beautiful colors and very nice composition.

Regards,
Satish.

[Lorant Voros]

I love the colors in this image, especially the BG that makes the bird pop. Nice down wing stoke, IQ and comp. Well done.

[Doug Brown]

Thank you all for the comments! Much appreciated!

[David Salem]

Great looking Pintail frame Doug!! The pose and the flight angle look real nice and that killer BG sets this one off beautifully. Love it.

[Glenn Conlan]

A beautiful Sprig, one of the best flight shots of this wonderful duck