Glaucous-winged Gull

[Mike Landwehr]

This is an image from a Homer IPT last March. These beautiful gulls provide lots of good shooting when the eagles slow down! Any suggestions welcomed.

7D
ISO 400
70-200 f/2.8 II @ 200 mm
1/1600 @ f/5.6
handheld

[Randy Stout]

Mike:

Perfect wing position. Like the flared feet and tail as well.

Sharp, well exposed, excellent comp/framing.

Works for me.

Cheers

Randy

[dankearl]

Excellent landing pose, the feet are pretty wild looking.
The exposure looks really good to me, and the overall, the light
and pleasing pastels are really nice.

[Tom Rambaut]

Perfect wing position and love the dropped feet and fanned tail. The whites look spot on. Nice detail in the shadows. Works for me too.

[Dan Behm]

Mike,
A very pleasing image, A very common bird but in no way a common shot, The exposure and detail throughout are spot on, "The pose" Head angle, Wing position and feet down really brings this image home. wonderfully done, wish it were mine.

Dan

[Daniel Cadieux]

Neat pose, I like the symmetrical wing position. I would tone down the whites on the wing to our left to match the other...

Well done!