Mallard

[Jonathan Ashton]

Canon 7D Canon 500mm f4 L IS handheld, Manual metering, ISO 500 1/1000 sec f4.5
At last it wasn't raining when I took Barney for his morning walk so I decided to take the camera with me, all comments welcome.

[Randy Stout]

Jon:

Nice light, full up wing pose, water droplets. I might crop a sliver from the left. For my eyes, the head could use a bit ore sharpening.

There is a dark smudge along the trailing edge of the back wing at the base.

Cheers

Randy

[Marina Scarr]

Lovely flight pose, and I like how the duck is flying off into the sun. I would crop a tad from the left.

[Dennis Zaebst]

Nice capture. I love the light and the flight pose. Well done Jonathon.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Jon, after your miserable weather, this is really sweet light, which in turn has brought out warm colours on the Mallard. I do like the flying pose with the raised wings, and as mentioned by others, agree to take a bit off the left.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thanks very much for the comments everyone, I must admit when I cropped I was unsure over 16:9 or 3:2. Not too sure where the smudge came from!

[Satish Ranadive]

Jonathan:
Simple and very very sweet flight image.

Regards,
Satish.