Roseate Spoonbill Feeding...

I captured this image at Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED, camera supported by a monopod
1/2500 F/8 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 1000 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 400mm
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2020 and Neat Image for noise reduction
Cropped for composition and presentation

P.S. Learn more about Circle B Bar Reserve in the BAA Middle Florida Photography Site Guide that Artie and I co-authored. It is available at this link The BAA Middle of Florida Site Guide

Joe:

One of my favorite birds, nice shooting angle, like head turned a bit back towards us. Lovely breeding plumage.

The saturation looks just a bit intense, but certainly is vibrant.

Crop works well for this pose.

Randy

That pink and blue go great together. Nice pose and behavior on this one. Should have entered it for the theme. The water looks really neat.

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Originally Posted by Randy Stout

Joe:

One of my favorite birds, nice shooting angle, like head turned a bit back towards us. Lovely breeding plumage.

The saturation looks just a bit intense, but certainly is vibrant.

Crop works well for this pose.

Randy

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Hi Randy, finally figured it out. Not sure how but the contrast was pushed. Here is a repost I think is better.

Great image Joe great detail. On the original water is what I thought had too much contrast or saturation . Second version is better. TFS

Beautitful colours, and I like the water movement where the bill is touching it. Good head turn. If mine I'd likely remove the detached part of the head reflection just to clean up the bottom edge.

Great feeding pose with nice head turn. Colors are really vibrant; repost is good.

The repost is looking better here Joe...Love the colours, really vibrant. Nice details on the bird, and I like the pose.

Will

Thanks everyone for viewing and commenting, much appreciated. I think I ironed out the vibrant/saturated colors.