Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)

I captured this image of a male Anhinga in breeding plumage 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 and lens supported by a Oben carbon fiber monopod with a Wimberly MonoGimbal head
1/1600 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV +1/3 ISO 1600 Auto WB, image captured at 400mm (600mm 35mm Equivalent)
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Topaz Denoise AI and Topaz Sharpen AI
Cropped for composition and presentation

Joe, man this looks like an Indian head dress. Sweet hair-do and check out that gnarly beak!?

Super sweet bkg and silky soft feathers. Digging those for sure.

Love that you took a crack at a vertical pano crop, but for me I feel like going wider would help.

Would love to get to some nice FL shoreline to shoot these one day!

Magnificent bird and great capture well done

Looking good Joe....those breast and neck feathers have nice texture.....Looks natural....Nice pose and HA.

Will

Nice portrait of this anhinga. Perfect head angle. Nice thinking on going vertical.