Pintail landing

[Ruhikanta Meetei]

5D3 at 700mm, F/5.6, 1250 ISO, 1/2000sec handheld.

[Jeff Sorbie]

I love the Details and Color of this photo. Nice capture Ruhikanta.

[Lorant Voros]

Beautiful colors and clean BG. I know the bird is flying away from you, still it works IMO with the looking back pose. Bummer for the green spot in the lower right..would have been sweet with full brownish. TFS.

[Frank Schauf]

Great pose and setting you have here.

[Marina Scarr]

What a great pose and BG. Works well even though the duck is flying away b/c you have a great head turn and a great topside look.

[Joe Senzatimore]

One fine flight shot. Great job not letting the head get lost in the wing. Beautiful BG.

[Nancy Bell]

This is quite lovely. Beautiful soft light on the duck and sweet subtle shades of fall color in the bkgd. You created a beautiful composition.

[dankearl]

Just a terrific photo, just floating in a great BG.
Very nice.

[gail bisson]

This is lovely.
Great BG and HA.
Has a painterly feel to it,
Gail

[Karen Forderer]

What a great photo. Nice and sharp on a beautiful soft background.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the pose, top view, details and BG. Very well done.

[Shawn Zierman]

Gorgeous image in all regards!

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Even though he's flying away, I really like this shot. Very nice detail and color.

[Daniel Cadieux]

The head turned towards us despite the duck flying away makes this a special pose. Great BG, including the green spot. Cropping about half the empty space above renders a stronger comp IMO, but that is very subjective of course.

[Ruhikanta Meetei]

Thanks everyone for the comments.
Ruhikanta

[Jonathan Ashton]

Beautiful quality to the image, my only suggestion is to recompose slightly to place the bird on the rule of thirds