Landing for 3000th

[Stu Bowie]

My 3000th post. I thought I would share a yellowbill duck landing with a full reflection. The water was as calm as can be. The landing angle gives the impression that this needs a rotation, but the tips of the beaks are in line. Taken in Pretoria two weeks ago.

Thanks to everyone who has helped me for another 1000 posts. This is a great site for learning, and I for one, have learnt so much from you guys and girls. Now lets move on to the next milestone.

Canon 50D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/3200
F/5.6
ISO 640

Exp Comp 0
Hand Held

[Krijn Trimbos]

Congrats on the 3000th post Stuart. Lovely shot, nice calm water, good colours, cool landing pose and HT. Does it need a bit of CC rotation?? Anyway lovely shot

[Randy Stout]

Stuart:

congrats on the 3000th. It seems like only last week it was 2000!

A nice image to go with the milestone. Sharp, nicely exposed, perfect wing position, good water action.

Cheers

Randy

[David Roach]

Congrats on 3000!!!! Love the action, pose, light and details!

[Doug Brown]

Stunning water and reflection. I've enjoyed watching your images improve during your time here on BPN. Congrats on 3000!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Congratulations on the milestone and great image to go with it! I like the landing pose, sharpness, exposure control and reflection.

[Tell Dickinson]

Lovely shot Stuart, love that reflection, a little ccw rotation ? Is it a Speckled Teal ???

Tell

[Lorant Voros]

Beautiful choice for the 3000th one. Love the calm water, the beautiful pose of the bird, the detail, the water drops and the great reflection. Congratulations for the milestone.

[Aidan Briggs]

Congrats on the milestone, and that is one sweet image! Perfect reflection, light, wing position, and exposure!

[Gal Shon]

Congrats,
A lovely sweet image,
Beautiful colors (especially the water), pose, great sharpness.
I think I would have rotate it.

[Phil Ertel]

Lovely landing pose with a very nice reflection. The exposure and sharpness look good. Congratulations on very nice 3000 post.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Congrats brother on the fabulous milestone! Now to 4k! :D

Love the smooth water and the duck is razor sharp. Have a play with the CCW rotation and see how much better or worse it is.
Thanks for sharing.

[Leo Berzins]

Congratulations on the 3000 posts.
Great landing pose and reflection.
As you said, the landing angle gives the misleading impression that some rotation is needed but it means that the duck is still angled slightly towards us which helps make it such a great image.

[Hugh J McLaughlin]

Congrats on number 3000. It is very easy to lose focus and the subject when the impact with the water dramatically slows the bird down

[Ramon M. Casares]

Big congratulaitons on the 3000 posts!!! Great image to celebrate! Lovely light, great pose, detail, BG, comp, colors and sharpness.
Congratulaitons!

[Harshad Barve]

Congrats on the 3000th post Stuart, and beautiful image
TFS

[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

The reflection is what really makes this image. Good sharpness, lighting and exposure.

[Dave Barnes]

Keep the numbers rolling Stu, well done.
It does look as though the bird is going to fall over, will this work with a portrait crop?
Good reflection colour and detail.

[Kobus Tollig]

Great image well done. Great reflection and pose. Congrats on 3000.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Congrats Stuart, beautiful image to touch down a mile stone.. congrats..

[Dr.Pranay Rao Juvvadi]

Great light and sharp details, and like the calm water's surface. Personally, I would take off a little space on the right. Congrats.

[Stu Bowie]

To each and every one, thank you all for the kind words. Much appreciated.

[Indranil Sircar]

Congratulation on the 3000th post. Excellent image to celebrate. Love the water landing pose and the reflection.

[Stephen Earle]

Another stunner Stu. Congrats and thx for your inputs as always.

[Stu Bowie]

Indranil, Peter, Stephen, thanks for the kind words guys.