Spoon or Flower?

[Fabs Forns]

I was lucky to catch this beauty as it took off, on board the Hooptie Deux. The wings remind of petals.

D300, 500/4 plus 1.7X, hand held from boat
f/6.7, 1/1250, ISO 800

[James Shadle]

Lucky?
I remember you being pre-focused and prepared for the take off. Not luck.
Should read.
"I was prepared enough to catch this beauty as it took off, on board the Hooptie Deux."

I really like the symmetry of the wings, background, the feet are in the frame and the Spoonbill is dead sharp.

IMO if pull a little bit of yellow out of the image it would look closer to what we saw. However, remembering when photographing a scene, it should be what you want seen and not necessarily what you saw, this could be your artistic vision.

James

[Randy Stout]

Fabs:

Lovely shot, and the framing perfectly supports the title! James hit the technicals. I also like the slightly open bill. I might brighten it just a bit, I would like to see a bit more detail in the feet/legs, but obviously, the wings position is what makes the image for me.

I think this is a good example of: "the harder I work, the luckier I get"

Cheers

Randy

[Mark Dumbleton]

Stunning Capture Fabs! Amazing pose and colouring.
I like the different composition here. Well done on capturing this!

[Stu Bowie]

Perfect symmetry in those wings Fabs, and what I really like in this, is that bill, with the way it has opened. Congrats on an amazing image Fabs.

[Grace Scalzo]

Just beautiful. So original. Nice to see a creative mind at work!

[Ramon M. Casares]

That's not luck, that just knowing exaclty what to do :) Love the crop, comp, BG, light, detail, exposure and pose! Very nice really! Congratulaitons Fabs!

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Love this !!!!!! Beautiful image with a great composition. It has Fab all over it . Keep them coming my friend .

[Fernando Cerra]

Excelent image Fabs, it looks as if it had a heart between the wings !

[LouBuonomo]

Fabs this made me chuckle when I got to that face !

Nice capture !
Lou

[Stephen Stephen]

Fabs lovely perspective in this image. The dark BG particularly accents the beautiful colour of the bird.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Very nice take-off Fabs. I like it and the double meaning is even more appealing. Love the sharpness. Gosh, it is sharp. :)

[bill kominsky]

No nits from me either Fabs, wonderfully done and thank you for sharing.

Bill

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Very cool pose, composition and BG. I also like the slightly open bill.

[Bill Sharkey]

Incredible image, congrats :)

Love the symetry with the darker feet, DOF work too!

Bill

[Juan Aragonés]

wow :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

very, very creative, I find this image excelent, superb. Very good job Fabs!