Spoonbill

[Ivan Ellison]

Not quite as colourful as your spoonies but this is a fairly rare bird for the north of England. A five hour wait on a cold marsh eventually resulted in the bird coming close enough to get a shot . Marshside RSPB reserve, 03/04/13
Cropped to approx 60% of orig, not much pp work done, a little to the exposure, sharpening and nr in ACR, further sharpening in PSE 10 for web.
Canon 1DmkIV
Canon 500 f4 is + 1.4 conv
1/2500
f8
iso 800

[gail bisson]

Images are always so much better when you work hard for them!
Whites look great.
I like the diagonal line created by the far shoreline and the bit of triangular water in LUC. It breaks up the image nice and gives it more interest visually.
Nice IQ and tack sharp.I would rotate CW ever so slightly.
Well done on the rare visitor,
gail

[Marina Scarr]

Great opportunity, and you took full advantage of it. You did well on the exposure and the low angle. Details looks very good. Wish the environment had been a bit more pleasing but such is nature.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Your patience paid off, congrats. Whites look perfect, details are appealing. BG is so-so...here's where an even lower angle (if at all possible) would have been good IMO to throw that BG even more OOF and less distracting. Does the image need a bit of CW rotation? Having said this I realize this is a rarity for you...you've done a great job to document it beautifully.

[Ivan Ellison]

Thanks for all your comments. Daniel- I agree about the lower angle, normally I would have been on the ground waiting , but I was on a bank at the back of the marsh with a fence in front at the bottom of the bank. It would have limited any movement of the lens if I had pushed the lens through the fence. The bird is fairly skittish and flies off if it sees people or any movement.

[adrian dancy]

I know this location ....you did exceptionally well here Ivan.