Loon chick stretching

[Cheryl Ertelt]

Common Loon - age 2 weeks
Gavia immer
Hawks, MI

Canon 1DIIN wiht 500mm and 1.4TC, ISO 400, 1/640 @ f/8, from Wimberly head mounted on Skimmer while lying prone on a pontoon boat.

[Maxis Gamez]

Hi Cherry,

What a lovely pose and green water. The wings looks sharper than the head but nothing you can't fix in photoshop. Very nice!

[Grady Weed]

Ditto the above and with a ccw turn it rocks.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Wow, this is so great and cute. :) Great angle, water color, pose and eye contact. Maybe a bit selective sharpening of the head and regarding rotation, if necessary (I'm not positive) then a bit CW in my humble opinion. Thanks for sharing!

[Alfred Forns]

Guys might be my eyes but eye looks good to me !!!! Would only remove the extra catch lights

Lovely pose of the the little swimming fuzzball !!! I like the low angle, eye contact and detail !!! Big Congrats Cheryl !!!

[Fabs Forns]

It looks pretty good to me too :) Sweet all around!!!

[Harold Stiver]

That looks fabulous Cheryl, especially that look in its eye. I'd be proud to have this one.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Awesome capture and timing Cheryl . Love this capture !!!!! It calls for a cutness alert for sure !

[Sid Garige]

Wonderful image. Excellent details and interesting behavior.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Cheryl,
Not often we get to see the litle ones like this. would agree with alfred on the extra catchlight.......but also just wanted to add my Great!