Black-headed gull

[Rich Steel]

Hi

On the way home from work yesterday, I stopped briefly to have a bit of fun with the local Black-headed gulls in the last bit of sun of the day. Most of the birds are now in summer plumage and wil be heading off to their breeding sites soon.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k217/squidfish_2006/bhgull17v22009.jpg

Taken with 1Dmk3 and 500mm lens at ISO 400 F4.5 and 1/1600s

Cheers

Rich

[Arthur Morris]

This is quite loverly. Great light, sharp, and a nice head turn. The pattern of the droplets is way cool.

[Randy Stout]

Rich:

Very nice, agree with Artie.

I might crop just above your sig. line, not sure the out of focus negative space adds much there.

Thanks for sharing. Well seen!

Randy

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great moment captured, the pattern of the droplets makes this really cool. I would only crop a bit off the bottom.

[Dean Fleischman]

I agree with the above C&Cs, especially the one about trimming a bit off the bottom, and just wanted to add that those wonderful water droplets are almost shockingly symmetrical...

[Rich Steel]

Thanks for the replies and cropping suggestion. Appreciated as always.

Cheers

Rich