Marbled Godwit feeding

From my recent trip to Ft Desoto. I thoroughly enjoyed that location.

Thank you for looking and for your comments. I appreciate them all.

1/2500, f 5.6, iso800
Canon 1dx, 500f4 + 1.4tc
Cropped a bit and did some bill clean up of high lights .

Beautiful Grace. The light is so nicfe and I like the warer color, great detail and that special stretchy worm:bg3:

Couldn't look any nicer.
Terrific light and I love the layered BG.
Perfect angle and comp.

That's about as great a separation of subject from FG/BG ever. Perfect focus, and great use of OOF on either side. Perfect!

- Ron

Wow looks super with the perfect BG and the bird nicely placed, the details are nice and the action of it pulling the worm adds a lot to the beautiful image.

Beautiful image,love the light,BG,nice pose and the food is a bonus.well done.

Superb image, very nice soft colours and lightening. Great pose of the godwit as well!

Loving that long....long worm, light and focus is excellent as is the framing, texture/sheen on the water is rather nice as well...the backdrop makes it all very perfect imo

Grace:

Lovely as mentioned by everyone. Nice light, like the slightly ruffled feathers, worm of course, soft bg and nice colors.

Well done.

Cheers
Randy

Great job on this one Grace. The bird is lit very well and the exposure is perfect, giving you great feather detail. Love the transition between the BG and FG, almost seamless. The worm is a bonus. Well done.

Thanks everyone. Marbled godwits are rather infrequent visitors to Long Island where I live, so to have about twenty of them at Ft DeSoto, and cooperative no less, was a treat indeed.

Hi Grace, This is just lovely - great light and the use of depth of field is spectacular! Really enjoyed seeing you at Ft Desoto!!

Excellent image Grace! I like the light, pose, IQ, calm water, exposure, sweet BG and composition.