Mike Poole
05-02-2017, 10:40 AM
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Managed a few hours at Fort Desoto over Easter during the family holiday. I was surprised at what I thought were fairly low numbers of birds around the lagoon area of North Beach (maybe my expectations were too high?) so I too a walk south a few hundred yards and found a colony of Terns and Skimmers. There was plenty of courting action going on, then as this pair started mating they were both face on to me, and as I wanted the sun behind I was reluctant to move. Fortunately they then did a little shuffle round and a bit of a wing flap later I got this result.
Edges of a couple of stray birds cloned out along with some specular highlights in the water. Catchlight on the male enhanced.
Canon 1dx
500mm f4is
ISO 1600
1/3200th f8
Mike
Managed a few hours at Fort Desoto over Easter during the family holiday. I was surprised at what I thought were fairly low numbers of birds around the lagoon area of North Beach (maybe my expectations were too high?) so I too a walk south a few hundred yards and found a colony of Terns and Skimmers. There was plenty of courting action going on, then as this pair started mating they were both face on to me, and as I wanted the sun behind I was reluctant to move. Fortunately they then did a little shuffle round and a bit of a wing flap later I got this result.
Edges of a couple of stray birds cloned out along with some specular highlights in the water. Catchlight on the male enhanced.
Canon 1dx
500mm f4is
ISO 1600
1/3200th f8
Mike