Pacific Loon

[Glenn Bartley]

Hi everyone!

I just got back from 7 weeks on the road. What a trip! It is hard to pick a favourite bird or photographic highlight. There were simply too many :)

During the bird photography workshop that I was co-leading up in Churchill we had some incredible opportunities and I will post lots of those later. I wanted to start with my absolute favourite bird from up in Churchill - the gorgeous Pacific Loon.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3075/pacificloon04.jpg

Camera Model: Canon EOS 7D
Shutter speed: 1/1250 sec
Aperture: 8
ISO: 400
Focal length: 500mm + 1.4x

[DarrenMcKenna]

I can see why this is a favorite of yours, a gorgeous specimen. A beauty Glenn.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Love the beautiful variegated BG and the loon is beautiful with excellent detail. The velvety water also adds to the overall beauty of this image. Outstanding Glenn. Would love to see these beautiful birds one day. :):)

[Troy Lim]

Wow, beautiful shot for sure, BG and exposure. Great start. Keep them coming...

[Michael Stern]

Very nice photo! And
Very nice BG colors = pastel'ish...
All very well done!
A pleasure to look at...
Mike

[Sid Garige]

Beautiful image Glenn. Great background and color progression. Very nice comp.

[Alfredo Fernández]

Amazing, as usual Glenn...
love the exposure and the background.

[Grace Scalzo]

Absolutely beautiful, Glenn.

[Steve Kaluski]

Great colours Glenn, good POV another bird I would love to photograph.

Any suggestions around Ucluelet or Tofino mid September? Although I did contact Adrian D as you suggested so he might too know some locations. :)

Thanks
Steve

[Krijn Trimbos]

Hi Glenn, cool species which I would love to photograph. Great low angle, good contrast and nice BG. Although I am watching this on my work monitor now I am positive I saw a colour cast on my monitor at home (recently calibrated apple cinema screen) as well. I think it must be a red or magenta cast. Probably due to the canon body, I always have a slight red/magenta cast in every picture taken with my 7D or 50D bodies. Easy enough to get rid of and this shot surely deserves it!

Cheers,

Krijn

[Colin Knight]

New species for me! Outstanding job! Love the low angle and BG.

[Ofer Levy]

Beautiful image Glenn! Everything works so nicely in here.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Great feel to this Glenn...

[Hendri Venter]

Gorgeous bird and image. Well done!