Northern Pintail Liftoff

[Alan Murphy]

Northern Pintail

Vancouver, BC

D3, 200-400 @ 400, ISO 1250, f7, 1/3200

[James Salywoda]

Sweet Stuff Alan!!! Love the pose and the small trailing water drops coming off the feet... One of my favorite ducks.:)

[Troy Lim]

Love these ducks but they don't like to stay nearby...:)
Love the details and the lift...

[Paul Lagasi]

This really is a beauty duck...like the crop, sharpness and color...well done..would only wish for more of far wing to show, I'd love to get one this good....TFS

[Danny J Brown]

Alan,

This is one of the most beautiful pintail in flight shots I've ever seen. Always fun to see you posting fantastic work away from the "set-up" arena. Thanks for this one.

DB

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Fantastic pose, exposure, sharpness and pop. Is that the background as taken? JR

[Chris Martinez]

WOW! This is beautiful. Love all the water on the belly and mid air droplets. I think the head angle is perfect and the pose is OK too:p The provides so much clarity.

[Alan Murphy]

Fantastic pose, exposure, sharpness and pop. Is that the background as taken? JR

Hi Joerg,

I did a slight blur on the BG.

[Bill Dix]

Another beauty, Alan. Wonderful flight angle, detail and background.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Everything is stunning good Alan...the angle, wing position, sharpness, light....you nailed this one. Thx for sharing.

[Pieter de Waal]

Beautiful image Alan with excellent exposure and detail.

[Harshad Barve]

Super fantastic shot Alan
TFS

[stuart wanuck]

what a great image

[RAM MALLYA]

WOOOW what a sharpness on this bird the water droplets adds grace to this image wish this was mine

[Tim Zurowski]

I remember that day Alan :) Fantastic lift off pose with excellent details. I just calibrated my monitor last night, and to my eye the colour space looks off a bit on this image, especially if I compare it to similar images I have from the same location and same day.

[Aravind Krishnaswamy]

Beautiful pose and the exposure is spot on. Very nice.