The Blue Kind

[Doug Brown]

Nothing special here. Just a Blue Goose from the Bosque. A tight crop to highlight the detail in the bird.

Canon 1D Mark IV, 600mm + 1.4x, f/7.1, 1/3200, ISO 400, manual exposure, hand held

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Doug, this is excellent. Well exposed, sharp with perfect angle and BG. I am fine with tightness as there is enough room in front IMO. Liked the wing position too. Nice view of both sides of the wings.

[Randy Stout]

Doug:

Perhaps the bird isn't unique, but you did a good job of showing him off. Like the IQ, angle in frame,blue at the top of the BG, gives me a sense of him climbing out of a valley.

Cheers

Randy

[Stu Bowie]

Doug, looks pretty special from here. I like the flying angle and posture, and overall well exposed and sharp. Somehow, the hint of blue sky in the in BG really adds to the image. Well captured.

[Paul Lagasi]

Nice image, sharp, colorful and nice wing position...Nice capture Doug

[Alan Lillich]

The flat wings are great, as is the clear leading edge curve from both above and below. The strength of the bird really shows.

[Sid Garige]

I have not see many iamges of this guys in flight Doug. Very nice wing position and pose.

[Aidan Briggs]

Perfect wing position, exposure, and sharpness as expected! The comp works fine here, but I would probably opt for a looser crop on the master file.

Well done!!

[Hendri Venter]

Lovely flight pose and the goose is nicely separated from the BG. Very good image.

[Doug Brown]

Appreciate the kind words!

[Christopher Marek]

It is pretty much the defacto bird in flight shot. As I have said many times in the past, I still can't get over how a person can hand hold such a rig. You are the Jimi Hendrix of photography.

[Doug Brown]

You are the Jimi Hendrix of photography.

Now that's quite a compliment!