Long-billed Curlew in winter habitat

[arash_hazeghi]

Curlew with muddy beak at work

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MK4 700mm f/5.6 1/2500sec ISO 1600. Thanks for looking

[Ofer Levy]

Lovely shot !! Beautiful light and colours, super low angle, awesome dynamic pose and well balanced composition. The mud on the beak is the icing on the cake IMO. Excellent work !!:cheers:

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Beautiful light, superb details. One of my favorite birds. Nice work!

[Grace Scalzo]

Love the mud on the beak and feet. What did you look like after creating this image? Equally muddy?
I feel as if it could use a bit of ccw rotation but the slight uphill feel adds to the muddy tension.

[James Salywoda]

Excellent Shot! I love the mud on the bill.

[Nico Steenberg]

Great angle and DOF. Like the comp and colours. IMG is sharp and well exposed. Well done :S3:

[Tom Rambaut]

The mud on the bill is fantastic!

[Jay Gould]

Mate, amazing image. How much of a crop? Where were you when shot?

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Arash, very nice pose. Excellent shooting angle and light is always superb in most of your shots. this one no exception. awesome job in getting parallel. that shows the bill shape so well.

[Sid Garige]

Mud on the bill puts this over the top Arash.

[adrian dancy]

Excellent work , good sharpness, colour and angle.

[Arthur Morris]

The mud on the bill and the light are both very nice. But. The image needs at least a bit of CCW rotation. It is a bit too tight in the frame for me. The dark line through the bird's ankles is distracting, as is the single dark round spot in front of the bird (on the mud).

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks for comments, the image was leveled using reflection that I cropped off, so it is perfectly level (horizon line has a slight tilt as the curlew is on a slight slope)...

@ Jay, crop is at ~8MP.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the low angle, sharpness and details. Well done Arash!