Fish Toss...

[Joseph Przybyla]

Here is one from the past that I captured at Ft. Desoto County Park in Pinellas County, Florida. This image captures a Royal Tern tossing the fish to position it for swallowing. If successful when diving for a fish after regaining flight terns toss the fish for easy swallowing. I have been working past image during it seems a week of cloudy, dark weather. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500Nikon 80-400 F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED, Handheld
1/3200 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 720 Auto WB, image captured at 400mm (600mm 35mm Equivalent)
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2022 and Topaz Denoise AI
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Jonathan Ashton]

Super shot, good and sharp well done.

[Mike Poole]

Great timing and I'm glad you left the lower strip of blue at the bottom to break the BG a little.

How close were you to the action? I'm surprised you went with the zoom and converter option - do they come in really close to shore?

Mike

[Arthur Morris]

Great timing and I'm glad you left the lower strip of blue at the bottom to break the BG a little.

How close were you to the action? I'm surprised you went with the zoom and converter option - do they come in really close to shore?

Mike

Hey Mike, No TC. Just the crop factor of the camera.

much love, artie

[Arthur Morris]

Hey Joe, This is a real winner! Love the great look at the fish. Am I correct in thinking that the shadow of the fish falls on the upper mandible??? My only wish would be for a better look at the near-underwing.

with love, artie

[Steve Kaluski]

Now that's the ticket Joe, you are back on form again, cooking on gas.:cheers:

Having the sea in view just elevates the capture it in my book.

TFS
Steve

[Joseph Przybyla]

Great timing and I'm glad you left the lower strip of blue at the bottom to break the BG a little.

How close were you to the action? I'm surprised you went with the zoom and converter option - do they come in really close to shore?

Mike

Hi Mike, thank you for viewing and commenting. The birds were diving and feeding as I remember maybe one hundred feet (30 meters) off the surf line.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Hey Joe, This is a real winner! Love the great look at the fish. Am I correct in thinking that the shadow of the fish falls on the upper mandible??? My only wish would be for a better look at the near-underwing.

with love, artie

Hi Artie, thank you for viewing and commenting. You are correct that is the fish's shadow on the upper mandible. I may have one with a better near wing position but then the fish is out of position.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Now that's the ticket Joe, you are back on form again, cooking on gas.:cheers:

Having the sea in view just elevates the capture it in my book.

TFS
Steve

Hi Steve, thank you for viewing and commenting. I also like the sea at the bottom of the image. I left it in because I thought it added context to the image and anchored it.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Congratulations on a fine action image here Joe! Looks great on all counts.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Hey Joe, This is a real winner! Love the great look at the fish. Am I correct in thinking that the shadow of the fish falls on the upper mandible??? My only wish would be for a better look at the near-underwing.

with love, artie

Hey Artie, better near wing position? :wave:

[Ian McLachlan]

Ansel could not have done better on this opportunity. By a small margin I would choose no your first image.All plaudits well deserved.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Joe .... one of your best ever posted images , IMHO , as far as i can remember .
Big congrats !!!! :5:cheers::5

Stunning action captured .

Love it and TFS Andreas

[Kurt Bowman]

Glad you reposted this. Love the action and timing Joe! Congratulations on nailing this one!

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thanks everyone for viewing and commenting, much appreciated.