Dancing Grebes

[Steve Zamek]

These Western Grebes were performing a few weeks ago at an inland lake along the California central coast.

Canon 7D, 500mm + 1.4 TC, manual, f7.1, 1/2500, ISO 400

[arash_hazeghi]

great work love the pose and details! excellent you got both sharp and synchronized

[Stan Cunningham]

Agree with Arash, and really like the wake they are making as they go. Next you just have to get them coming to you, we can always wish can't we.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Pretty spectacular! Toward you would put this in the stratosphere! A really great one all around!

[Randy Stout]

Steve:

Spectacular action, non overlapping poses, flying water, exposure. Yes, slightly towards us would be better, but still wonderful..
I might try a version with a bit of canvas added to the left.

Great job.

Cheers

Randy

[Arthur Morris]

Killer action. Wish that the birds were angling slightly towards us rather than slightly away. For the repost did some eye doctor work on the bird on the right and sharpened the faces of both birds. Though the WHITEs are not showing blown they are lacking detail. A linear burn on the WHITEs helped but only a bit.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Fabulous action, and a super comp. I agree with the others' comments...and looking forward to Artie's repost (which is currently not showing).

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks Dan. I did everything but hit "Save Changes." See above.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Always dreamt of makińg a image like this since childhood when I saw a similar picture as a kid in a magazine. At that time I never even dreamt I would be really photographing birds. Hope to do it some day. Thanks..

[Glenn Bartley]

Love the action here! What a great catch :)

[Andrew Merwin]

Marvelous image. I agree with the above comments & I like that the foot of the front grebe is visible. Great action. TFS.

[dankearl]

Really good, I agree about the angle, but getting them in this pose together is really nice.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Spectacular indeed, the synchro, the comp., the shooting angle, splashes. Very well executed. thx for shairng.

[Ofer Levy]

Fantastic beahaviour shot!!!!

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Steve, excellent timing and an opportunity well captured. Love the symmetrical poses, flying water, and I like Artie's nip and tuck in his repost.

[Steve Zamek]

Thank you all for your helpful comments, and to Artie for the cleanup. I agree that a shot of the birds coming toward me would be preferable. I was hoping for such an opportunity that morning. Alas, the only such shot included some distracting elements from the shore behind them. Maybe next year :)

[Jonathan Ashton]

Beautiful shot, I take my hat off to you.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Awesome behavior shot . The synchronized poses and splashing water are awesome