Female Long-tailed Duck

[Karl Egressy]

I don't remember seeing Lake Ontario so calm in the past few years and I visit this place a lot.
Low angle shooting is impossible at thet location.
I like the rich colour of this bird against the cold water.
Ice sheets were still drifting around back then.
I hope you like it.

Canon 1D Mark III
Canon 500 f4.0 L IS 1.4x
Manual setting
ISO 320
1/1600 sec
f 7.1


http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc29/karlo1789/6Y3F0729vv.jpg

[Ray Rozema]

The exposure looks good. Good detail in face. Color/calmness of water is great. Consider some crop off the bottom. Would like to see one of these.

TFS

[Paul Lagasi]

Beautiful image, love the reflection, sharpness, exposure and comp..thanks for sharing...lolol..whenever I go fishing on Lake Ontario, wish it was this calm...was this in Coburg?

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Sharpness and eye contact look very good but the calm water and reflection make this one for me. I might crop it a bit tighter.

[Manjesh Lingamurthy]

This is a well exposed shot. Nice reflection. I would crop from above a little and a tiny bit from the right.