Preening & Displaying

[Jude Haase]

Caught this guy this morning in some early light preening and displaying.

All comments and suggestions welcome! :)

30D and 500F4 & 1.4x

ISO 640
F4
1/1600th
shooting off tripod
Shot Raw...processed in CS2

[David Chauvin]

Cool image, Jude. I like the body posture and cascading plumage.

[Alfred Forns]

Is this from Lake Martin?

I like the raised feathers and head nearly parallel to the plane Beautiful bird in breeding plumage Just a bit hot !!!

[Jude Haase]

Alfred,

No, this isn't at Lake Martin. I hear as of last week there still wasn't any birds showing up there either.
:(

Thanks for the comment too.....I'll bring it back up and tone it down a bit.

Jude