Reddish Egret with Nesting material II

[arash_hazeghi]

Another image from the Hopptie Deux series made on Tampa Bay.

http://www.stanford.edu/%7Eahazeghi/Photos/birds/reddish%205%20low.jpg

5DMKII 500f/4, f/5.6 1/3200sec ISO 800.

I posted another photo of this guy earlier.

Thanks for looking

[Troy Lim]

Arash, another great shot.
Just a bit too sharp for my personal taste.
The adults were no where to be found this past weekend.

[Colin Knight]

Nicely done!! No such thing as too sharp for my taste unless there are halos. And I see no halos. :) Beautiful wing position and head angle here.

[Troy Lim]

Nicely done!! No such thing as too sharp for my taste unless there are halos. And I see no halos. :) Beautiful wing position and head angle here.

Colin, there is no halo but I see the dark line along the neck, plus white along the wings.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Cool pose, good eye contact and the nesting material adds interest. Sharpness looks good on my monitor, I can see Troy's point, though. Ideally, there were no shadow of the legs on the lower wing but the light angle was what it was.

[Troy Lim]

Cool pose, good eye contact and the nesting material adds interest. Sharpness looks good on my monitor, I can see Troy's point, though. Ideally, there were no shadow of the legs on the lower wing but the light angle was what it was.

Could be from the angle of the light. I was not 100% sure.
A great shot for sure.

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks guys the dark line on the neck is the shadow line it is not a sharpening halo. here is 100% crop from RAW

Everything that's in the image is natural and was there in the RAW :)

[Stu Bowie]

Arash, the angle of flight here, is simply stunning. Full wingspread, and showing good underwing detail. I like the cuvature of the wings too, together with the overall sharpness. Could he maybe have picked up something slightly bigger for his gift.;)

[Kiran Poonacha]

Nice pose and light here bhai, the NM adds...