Male Anhinga On the Move!!

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Male Anhinga On the Move!! - S.W Florida

Regardless of their fairly big body sizes, Anhinga is often a great challenge to photograph in flight. This male was on the move bringing nesting material back home!

Hope you like it.

Canon 40D, 500mm L @ f/5.6, 1/1000 sec, ISO 400, RAW, Manual Exposure, Almost Full Frame.

I find the image to be quite interesting from a behavioral aspect. I would like to see more of the bird in sharper focus and perhaps a little better eye contact. That said I do realize that these can awfully hard to capture well. Nice job!

Tim

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Originally Posted by Tim Kuhn

I find the image to be quite interesting from a behavioral aspect. I would like to see more of the bird in sharper focus

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Sharper? Looks prety sharp in my calibrated monitor. Are you referring to the blur? if that's the case blurs are more interesting to me than rock frozen images. I try to capture blurs are much as I can..

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Originally Posted by Tim Kuhn

and perhaps a little better eye contact

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I'll give you that! :D.

Thanks!

The Anhinga is separated from the water BG nicely Maxis, and his nesting material a bonus. Always great to see motion blur. Great capture.

Nice shot, like the wing action, is that a twig at the top of his eye?

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Originally Posted by Rod Wiley

Nice shot, like the wing action, is that a twig at the top of his eye?

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Hi Rod,

Yes! All natural :)

thanks!

Love it, grrat pose although I do wish for a slightly better head angle, still, great wing and body pose, lovely BG, colors, light, exposure and detail! Congratulations Maxis!