Giant Kingfisher

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

In my previous post of a Giant on the 19th the wing position was not that well received. Herewith the next frame where the wings are in the down position. Taken from the Mankwe hide in the Pilanesberg National Park

1D MKIII
600mm f/4
ss 1/2500
f/7.1
ISO 800

[Ilija Dukovski]

Great flight pose, one mighty bird, great HA too. It could use bit more
space on the right if you have it or you could extend the canvas.
The bird is bit noisy for ISO800. Not too noisy but bit surprising
for MKIII?

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Gerrie, good flight angle, and I like downstroke of the wings. Sharpness looks good, and he sure looks like he's on a mission. Well captured.

[Colin Knight]

I love it! The wing position is much more suitable to me.

Thanks for posting!

[Daniel Cadieux]

This is pretty darn cool Gerrie! Awesome wing pose and BG. I know the lower catchlight was caused by the water below, but I'd still be tempted to remove it.

[Chris van Rooyen]

Love the wing position, and sharpness is very good, as one would expect at 1/2500. Well done on a great image:)

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Gerrie,
I love the downstroke wing position and everything else is right on......very well done!

[A_Maddah]

Hi Gerrie
very nice.I like the wing position ,BG and the eye contact.TFS

Asad

[Ofer Levy]

Great shot!! Probably one of the best of this species that I have seen.

[Wes Aslin]

Wow, hard to find anything wrong with this. The wing position, eye contact, focus, DOF, BG and eye contact are all pretty much perfect to my eye. A real stunner!!

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

Thank you for viewing & commenting everyone. It is much appreciated.:)

[RAM MALLYA]

amazing flight shot with nice details captured

[Harshad Barve]

Hats off to you KF king , another stunning image
TFS

[Morkel Erasmus]

top shot Gerrie. lovely pose. I might go with a bit more extra space to fly into, and a slight selective sharpening of the eye and beak.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Nicely frozen Gerrie. great pose, details and compo...

[RakeshDhareshwar]

This is an absolute stunner !!!

[Hendri Venter]

You captured the perfect wing position here Gerrie and the angle is also great. Lovely catchlight in the eye and OOF BG too.