White Ibis

[Gary Esman]

Hello, looking through some older photos and thought I would share this shot of a White Ibis coming in for a landing.

50D, 700mm, 1/1250, iso:320, f/7.1

Thanks for looking and do appreciate the comments.

Gary.

[Randy Stout]

Gary:

The pose is great with extended wings, feet, and that bill. Drops add. He really jumps off the screen, with good sep. from the BG.

Because of his angle of flight, I could see a sliver more on right and below, but works well as posted.

I miss those Florida birds!

Cheers

Randy

[Tim King]

WHOA!! Very nice. Pleasant to look at. Fine job.

[adrian dancy]

A cracking shot with superb image quality and design.

[Karl Egressy]

Excellent landing pose, great details in the white, superb image quality and nice composition, Gary.

[Dan Behm]

Gary, I think this is sensational. The dangling feet, pulled back wings, head angle drop bill and water drops all against a pleasing BG makes for a very beautiful and pleasing image!

[Bill Dix]

Fabulous landing pose with great flight angle and head angle. Drops add to the image. I'd love to see just a slivver off the left and added to the right. And I might be tempted to desaturate the red channel a little, even though I know these birds can look pretty vivid.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Excellent pose in great light, Gary. Love those droplets and the layered bg. As Randy said, this one jumps off the screen.
I'd embed an sRGB profile in the image.

[PhilCook]

Dynamic colors Gary, wonderful exposure and ever so clear on the eye, loving the layered backdrop and droplets from the bill.

Maybe a little more canvas bottom and right would improve and possibly a run of noise reduction on backdrop only

[Diane Miller]

Gorgeous catch!!

I'd go with a little CW rotation to level the horizon, and back off the red channel a bit.

[vishaljadhav]

Wonderful image here, lovely landing pose, i like the whites a lot

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent dynamic landing pose, I really like the water drops. sweet warm light

well done!

[Leo Berzins]

Beautifully captured Gary.
Love the pose and the water drops.

[mohammad reza shahab]

Beautifully dynamic landing pose in great light.

[Nick Palmieri]

Really nice landing pose. I love the way he jumps out form the BG, very nicely done!

[Roman Kurywczak]

Agree with all of the above comments.....very nicely done!

[Gary Esman]

Thanks all for the comments and I do agree with the critiques.

Gary.

[Shawn Zierman]

Light quality is awesome...Love the bit of land or warm color in between the cooler colors of the fg and bg.
Technical aspects of the image rock.
Great photograph.

[Frank Schauf]

Excellent Pose and light, good exposure control and nice comp.