Avocet with taking off with prize!

[arash_hazeghi]

Happy Avocet taking off with dinner (oyster), breeding plumage.

http://www.stanford.edu/%7Eahazeghi/Photos/birds/Avocet%20with%20oyster%201024.jpg

5D2 500+1.4X TC, f/5.6 1/2500sec ISO 800.

Hope you like it

[Mike Tracy]

I like the inclusion of habitat but find where the dark upper vegetation ends sort of abrupt and too rectangular. The bird is gorgeous.

[Danny J Brown]

Fabulous shot Arash! The light is falling on this gorgeous specimen most perfectly. Action is great and water droplets too. Surface of the water is uniform but full of texture -- nice. How are you liking that 5D2 for shooting birds with the 500? It is an option I have considered in the past as an alternative to the 7D or Mark IV.

DB

[Michael Hogan]

Arash,

What a great shot, bird is brilliant. Would agree with Mike about the upper backgroud. If it was just OOF water (blue) it woul dbe so much better

Michael

[Ken Lassman]

Awesome lighting Arash...great capture with the oyster and water droplets. Upper portion a little distracting... but if anyone can take it out it would be you.... definitely a keeper

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

What a BEAUTY !!! Love the whole composition arash and the lighting, action and exposure are awesome. Love that some of the habitat is included. Stunning image !!!!!!!!!!

[Stu Bowie]

Hey Arash, lovely light and colours, and I like the perspective here. Good to see the raised wings, and overall nice and sharp. Of course his meal a bonus. ( as a matter of interest, where were you positioned to capture this. It seems you were in the water. )

[Fabs Forns]

One of our best IMO, killer light pose and action.

[arash_hazeghi]

Fabulous shot Arash! The light is falling on this gorgeous specimen most perfectly. Action is great and water droplets too. Surface of the water is uniform but full of texture -- nice. How are you liking that 5D2 for shooting birds with the 500? It is an option I have considered in the past as an alternative to the 7D or Mark IV.

DB


Thanks all for nice comments :)
Thanks Danny, 5D2 is an excellent camera and certainly the best overall that I have ever had.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Super exposure and detail. The light is about as good as it gets, and the low angle makes this for me...Nicely done Arash

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great moment captured, angle, wing position and oyster make it special. The BG might not be ideal but I don't find it distracting.

[Troy Lim]

Arash, enjoy looking at your shots, well done.
BG is what it is, nothing you can do about it.

[Harshad Barve]

awesome image Arashbhai , fully agreed with Fabs here
TFS

[Jim Fenton]

Beautiful light and subject and I think that background is superb....because it's nature.

For those of us who actually shoot in the marshes this looks real.

I guess if you've never really gotten out there and worked a real field location such as this...then you might not know what reality is :D

[Doug Brown]

You've really been hitting some photographic home runs lately Arash! Great wing position, eye contact, sharpness, and light. Nice low angle. The oyster is a real plus.