Eager to Learn, Spotlight Image for 2/5/10 Craig Wallace

[Alfred Forns]

Congratulations Craig Wallace
Male Kestral

Took this morning at Ridgefield NWR. Cloudy overcast day- flat light.
D2Xs 80-400vr at 400mm. iso 400 1/100sec at f5.6 ev +1 matrix metering wb cloudy
processed in ACR CS4 shadow/highlight, levels, curves, hue/saturation, light NR, smart sharpen.
having trouble with noise.
thanks for looking, comments welcome.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Congratulations, Craig!

[Kristin Brown]

Congratulations Craig on a lovely image and Spotlight Image!

[denise ippolito]

Congratulations Craig, Well done.:)

[Craig Wallace]

Thanks Al and all the others that help choose the IOTW, this is a great and unexpected honor because there are so many wonderful images and talented photographers in the "eager to learn forum" , it's a first for me!
Thanks Craig W.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Congratulations Craig, well done.

[Lance Peters]

Congrats Craig. :)

[Nate Chappell]

Congrats Craig, great perch for this lady!:cool:

[Doug Brown]

Congrats Craig! A very nice ETL Spotlight Image!

[Gary Esman]

very nice,congrats.

[Harshad Barve]

Congratulations Craig