Long-billed Curlew

[Alan Murphy]

Long-billed Curlew

Upper Texas Coast

D3, 850 MM, ISO 800, f5.6 @ 1/800.

Spent some time this evening with this guy in some sweet light. He would call about every two minutes, then right before the sun dropped behind the horizon he raised his wings and called one last time before taking off.

[Gavin Spooner]

Not much wrong here. Great light, great background, great wing action and great bill action.

cheers
Gavin

[arash_hazeghi]

Very nice light, full wing position and low angle. Looks like the curlew was yawning and stretching after a long day.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Killer pose,colors,bg and wing position!!!

[Art Peslak]

wow Alan. Great light with great pose and background.

[denise ippolito]

Beautiful BG colors and great pose. Really nice lighting.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Pretty darn cool pose! I'm just wondering about making the yellows in the BG a little less intense - but man, what timing, and check out the perfect HA just to put the cherry on top!

[Harshad Barve]

amazing pose , great details and killere BG ,
TFS

[Morkel Erasmus]

nothing to add but super shot Alan! low angle, pose and light take this over the top...

[Jasper Doest]

Great one! I'd love to have a bird lifting it's wings...or one calling like that...but you brought both home...stunning!

[Chris van Rooyen]

Ah...low angle, special moment, perfect HA, and the light....10/10

[Attila Seprenyi]

Beatiuful image and bird. The low angel and the lights excellent. Pose is perfect.

[Nagesh Mula]

Alan, this is simply fantastic. I would sharpen the eye a bit though. Congrats!!