Black tern

[Linda Robbins]

Canon 500mm f/4 IS lens, 2x teleconverter, and a Canon EOS-1D Mark II N mounted on a ground pod. AV mode: 1/2000 sec. at f/10. Ft. DeSoto, Florida.


On my last visit to Ft. DeSoto there were a handful of black terns among the hundreds of Royal, Least, and Forster's terns along the beach. I
had to constantly change my position to try to isolate a black tern from the crowd. I was finally rewarded when this black tern gave me a nice wing stretch with enough room so that no other birds appeared in the image.

[Ramon M. Casares]

No nits here, just jealousy! Congratuations, compo, light, BG, deatils and subject are all outstanding!!

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Linda, Linda, I knew you had more beauties awaiting!!!
Beautiful in all respects.

[Tony Whitehead]

Lovely shot Linda - great light and pose. Your aperture choice has covered the subject perfectly and still given a good BG. Nothing I can think of to improve the image.

[Doug Brown]

Love the composition and the great detail Linda. The low angle really helped you pull off f/10. I like the gray and blue BG colors too.

[James Salywoda]

Linda this is beautiful I love the total upward stretch and super details and that varied bg is the finishing touch.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

A beautiful image. I can't believe you managed to capture a wing stretch of an isolated bird and that too at f10. The low angle gives an awesome feel to the image.

[Grace Scalzo]

Fabulous! A few of these beauties do visit Long Island...I looked for them all summer to no avail. Fine work getting one by himself, and stretching his wings as well!

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Oooooh I like this a lot Linda. Beautiful action with the stretched wings and excellent detail and lighting. The BG is gorgeous and compliments the subject so well. Beautiful work !!!

[Kirk Benson]

Agree with all positive comments before me, I especially love how you've isolated the tern so well from the beautiful and complimentary BG. Perfect exposure too! Fantastic!

[Gus Cobos]

Lovely capture Linda,
I like the raised wing position...:cool: