This species is one of our most common summer migrant waders from the northern hemisphere, but I always find them a little hard to approach. This one flew in and sat on the rock as I was lying flat shooting Whiskered Terns.
D800, 300 2.8VRII, 1.7TC. f8, 1/800, ISO 200.
Thanks, Greg
Well done Greg, compo is very nice with the rock platform and great detail and light. I was chasing some of these over the mud flats the other day on a very hot day....very hard to get near to and mine all had too much heat haze in the backdrop
Excellent pose and good head angle. I like this composition. We get so few of these coming down in September-October from Alaska that they are sought after along the Washington Coast (making a deicison to follow the wrong coastline -- yet we don't see them coming north in the springtime)
Nice clean and simple image design. I do like the subtle shifts in tonality in the watery bg.
With a striding pose, or with the bird's left leg forward somehow with this elevated light angle,
both legs would have been lit more evenly, and that would have been an improvement imo.
Short of that, I see no way, this fine image could be better.
Hi Greg, the angle works well, as does the placement in the frame. Light looks good, and the overall detail has come out nicely - sharp too. The Sandpiper pops nicely from the water BG.
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
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