Juvenile American White Pelican Preening

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image in March of 2021 at Lake Morton in Lakeland, Florida. I worked the image up today. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 500mm PF, camera and lens supported by a Oben carbon fiber monopod with a Wimberly MonoGimbal head
1/2000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV +1 ISO 720 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 500mm (750mm 35mm Equivalent)
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2022 and Topaz Denoise AI
Cropped rotated slightly for composition and presentation

P.S. Learn more about Lake Morton in the BAA Middle Florida Photography Site Guide that Artie and I co-authored. It is available at this link https://birdsasart-shop.com/the-baa-middle-of-florida-photographic-site-guide/

[Daniel Cadieux]

I like it a lot. Fun thin vertical composition works well IMO. White on white looks beautiful.

[Brian Sump]

Joe, this is quite nice. The textures are rendered well and the pop of colors are great.

Like the composition as well. A solid frame!

[Mike Poole]

Yep, this one works as presented for me. Nicely processed with all the whites, great angles on the bird and the extra interest from preening is nice

Mike