Wood Duck Flight

[Doug Brown]

This is as good a Wood Duck flight image as I've ever gotten. It was taken on a beautiful late fall (or was it early winter?) afternoon last month. The water droplets give the image a little something extra.

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Canon 1D Mark IV, 400mm, f/5.6, 1/2500, ISO 400, manual exposure, hand held

[Randy Stout]

Doug:

It is a very fine woodie image, flying to boot.
You have shown the full color palatte, with browns,, purples, red,orange and greens and in particular a fine display of the speculum's blues.

Sharp. Also like how the blues in the water play off the blues on the bird.

I am at my backup work monitor, so color accuracy not good, but at least on this monitor, I would say the overall white balance is just a bit cool. Please take with grain of salt because of the monitor I am using.

Well done.

Randy

[Stu Bowie]

Doug, Fantastic flight angle and wing position, and you have nailed the sharpness. I cant remember seeing an inflight image of one of these guys, and this shows off the colours very well. Separated from the water BG nicely. Great capture.

[Michael Bertelsen]

Like Randy said, you have captured every color a Wood Duck has.
The slight angle towards the camera tops it off.

Cheers,

Michael Bertelsen

[Bill Dix]

Amazing range of colors (including some I didn't know he had), perfect flight angle and wing position. Great capture of a fast-flying bird.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Really love the colours in the frame Doug Bhai... beautifully done...

[James Salywoda]

The most beautiful duck and you nailed it. As mentioned you have all the colors showing perfectly. The angle of capture could not of been better.... You know I wished this was mine:) As always great stuff.

[Pieter de Waal]

Wow Doug what a beautiful rainbow of colours. Never seen an image of one of these in flight. Echo the comments above and like the way the blues in the water compliment the blues on the bird. Excellent image.

[Sid Garige]

simply awesome Doug. Great pose and details.

[denise ippolito]

Fantastic Doug! It's great to see the colors really shine here. Wonderful wing position and sharpness.:)

[Doug Brown]

Thanks for the comments everyone!

[Conrad Tan]

Don't get any prettier than this! :cheers::cheers::cheers:

[Jay Gould]

You are right, Doug. It doesn't get any better and the water drops make it extra special. TFS

[Christopher Schlaf]

Ive been shooting these guys for years I have only one shot that comes close to this.

[Doug Brown]

Thanks guys!