Kingfisher Returns

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

With ice forming on the lakes my spring fed ponds will have a kingfisher or two all winter that gives me great photo opts. I have minnows in the ponds and they eat their fill but have to strike the pose all winter.

markII
400mm5.6
handheld
iso 400
f/8.0
1.4 converter

[Daniel Cadieux]

Hope she sticks around for you Dennis. I like the winter scenery, not something you see everyday with this species. I wish the subject was bigger in the frame, but it looks like you are at the cropping limits for this image. BG is noisy too, some noise reduction would help.

[Wheeler McDougal Jr.]

Dennis-

I am afraid I don't see the noise that Danial sees. It would be interesting to see smaller crop just to see the result. Very nice image. I like it a lot.

Mac

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

Here is a cropped version from the full frame