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Sunday's forecast was for rain and possible thunder storms. Not being the sharpest knife in the drawer I decide to go and do what I love - photograph birds.
As it turned out I was rewarded with a bright overcast sky in the afternoon.

Sunday, 4/21/2013
Tampa Bay via the Hooptie Deux

Nikon D700
Nikon 600mm F4 AF-S I with Nikon TC14E
Tripod and Mongoose 3.5 Head

ISO 800
1/1600 SS F8
AF-C
Lock On Normal
9 Point Dynamic
Rear Focus (yes I'm trying it)

Full Frame
No Noise Reduction
Minimal High Pass Sharpening
Small Levels Adjustment
Processed from a laptop - always a crap shoot for me.

Does this image look a little larger than usual?
I'll announce the new posting guidelines later this evening.
Here's a hint 1200px wide up to 400kb

James, stunning image. WOW. love everything about this image.

James Sir,
Absolutely superb flight shot.Love the HA,wing position and composition.Fish is bonus.
Thank you for the great news,image size we can upload is now 1200pix.

Regards,
Satish.

Very unique Tern shot. I like the high keyish look to it. Not a lot of detail in the whites but the look of the shot makes it beautiful and dose the addition of the fish. Nice capture.

Lovely, love the brightness in this one. Very nice!

Very nice, I like bbf for statics shots but find it easier to pump the trigger with the shutter button for birds in flight.
So I add back button focusing to my custom menu so I can easily switch between the two.

Very high key looking, so in that respect it works well, but it does lack finer detail...fish is a great cbonus

Wonderful image James, love the pose and the fish. Also love the new image size :5

What an awesome capture, James, and so artistic. Looks great at this new larger size!

It's awfully nice to see you posting. So many photographers here at BPN don't know what an exceptionally talented photographer you are.

Lovely flight shot, and beautiful comp. I might wish for a little brighter catchlight, but no other nits from me.

Now I'll have to decide whether to reformat some images I had ready to post at 1024. :S3: