A litte discipline

[Grace Scalzo]

Just as with human kids, spoonbills have to encourage their young to find their own way.
(Capt Shadle was such a help explaining various behaviors of the birds that we saw while out on the Hooptie Deux.)

1/2500, f10, iso 800
Canon 1Dx, 500 f4 + 2.o tc + lowered tripod and waders

[jack williamson]

Super sharp, great action and the colors of the birds have been exposed just right. I like the pink reflections in the water also.

[dankearl]

You pretty much hit this out of the park!
Exceptional sharpness, light and action.
I can hear them talking to each other.
The feet splashing is really nice and the BG line reflecting the raised wings?
Perfect....

[Robert vanMierop]

Love the adult/juvi interaction capture. Also, nice exposure on the shallow water (sandy colored) light blue lores on the kid, and the adult's typical spoony colors. 'Wouldn't change a thing.

[Troy Lim]

Super nice image, how about a little CW rotation?

[Greg Oakley]

Lovely behavioural shot Grace,
Cheers, Greg

[Randy Rimland]

superb low angle and what a moment

i might tone down both right wings and the left spoonies neck up

[christopher galeski]

excellent shot,well sharp,nice action and light.

[Satish Ranadive]

Absolutely marvelous image of spooni's interaction you have captured.
Love the IQ,wonderful colors,poses of both birds with raised wings,nice HA and raised foot,flash of water and lovely low angle.

Regards,
Satish.

[Nicki Gwynn Jones]

Really nice Grace - lovely moment caught - great exposure, sharpness and processing. Brings back sweet memories of Florida!! :-)

[Jonathan Ashton]

Grace this is truly a graceful shot!! One of your best I would say, the poses and the colours are just beautiful, your exposure is spot on and the light is perfect. I can imagine your face when you saw this on the back of your camera. Well done.

[David Salem]

Nice capture Grace. Great interaction and I like seeing the color difference between the two. Techs are perfect and the whole scene looks great with the transitioning colors. I agree, one of your best in a while. Congrats!

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the interaction, sharpness, exposure control, composition and pink reflections really add to the image. Very well done Grace!

[Daniel Cadieux]

Super cool interaction! The walking poses and raised wings add alot of dynamics to the scene, not to mention the splashing water too. Great low angle.

[vishaljadhav]

The 2 things i like about the image are
Action
Colors

Lovely image

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Hey Grace. Looks like you had some great light for this trip. Nice action as well. We will definitely meet on your next trip... promise

[Marina Scarr]

Terrific action/behavior/interaction you captured here.