Belated Happy New Year.

Wood Duck

1/3200, f5.6, 420mm (300 w/ 1.4), iso1000, D800, Handheld.

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Happy New Year to you,Dan. What a way to start the new year! Love the colors here and all of the water spray.

Color and contrast is great.

Ed

What treat to see this. We don't have this species of duck in the UK. The colours are beautiful and you have captured a lovely pose here.

Very nice Dan. Great pose and low angle. Nice colours, just wished the head was a wee bit more angled towards us. Thanks for sharing

Effective POV, stunning colours. Like the profile angle. I would reduce the sat on blues a bit.

Happy New Year to you as well Dan! This duck looks happy to bring in 2015 with a very dynamic pose. Nice composition. I do find the blues a tad strong on the subject itself - I'd selectively reduce them. All else looks good to me.

A beautiful pose Dan, The colors look good to me. Have a great New Year.

Love the after bathing flapping pose. Happy New Year to you too. When are you coming to Cali to visit your daughter?

I like the pose, water drops, low angle, colours and composition. Happy New Year to you as well. Well done Dan.

Happy New Year to you and yours Dan!
Love the dynamic pose and I like this view of the back feathers.
Agree about the blues but otherwise a nice image,
Gail