Red-winged Blackbird

[Mike Milicia]

EOS-1D Mk III, 500mm f/4 + 1.4xII, 1/1000, f/8, ISO 400
About 95% of Full Frame (slight crop from right and bottom)

Photographed yesterday morning at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord, MA.

Looking forward to your comments and critiques! <!-- / message -->

[Troy Lim]

Mike,

Absolutely love this shot. Exposure looks good. BG is so simple. TFS.

[Randy Stout]

Mike:

Excellent exposure control, good detail in most blacks, without blowing out the epaulet.

Simple, clean background.

Love the grip on the cattail.

Cheers

Randy

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Beautiful lighting , pose and a killer BG. It has it all. Fine work and thanks for sharing Mike. I like that grip on the cat tail too !!

[Alfred Forns]

Sweet capture Mike !!! Agree with comments and fine image About all we could wish for is a calling pose !!! Love it !!!

[Stu Bowie]

Good leaning pose, and well done with the blacks.

[Greg Basco]

Mike, really nice; great job on the exposure. Apart from the singing that Alfred mentioned, I can't really think of any way to improve this.

Cheers,
Greg Basco