Gentoo Penguin with Chick

[Mike Milicia]

EOS-1D X, 500mm f/4L IS, 1/800, f/11, ISO 800
About 95% of Full Frame

Photographed last month during the Shoot The Light Falklands trip.

[Morkel Erasmus]

lovely moment here Mike...nicely exposed too, though I feel you could darken the brights by about 1/3 stop for a bit more punch?
a trip I would love to do...

[Mike Veltri]

Very nice Mike, good work getting them both sharp and isolated from the others in the background.

[Marina Scarr]

Love the little squawker in the front! Whites for me look good. Like the story you told with this image. The image "unfolds" so to speak.

[PhilCook]

Nicely done on isolating the main subjects from the rest of the birds, gotta love the begging/squawking posture on the chick, exposure looks good to me and cant see any room for improvement

[gail bisson]

Hi Mike,
I like the pose of the chick and parent.
Blacks and whites look great.
I like the feel of the colony behind the 2 penguins but find it does pull my eye away a bit.
I like the detail that shows the chicks fluff vs parent sleeker feathers.
Gail

[Dan Busby]

That little guy makes this one for me Mike. Very nice on all counts.

[Tom Rambaut]

Like the three stages of this image - chick, parent and background birds. Nice sense of colony and like the raised wings and begging pose of the chick. TFS.