Pied-billed Grebes.

[Daniel Cadieux]

What looks like an adult and baby are actually two adults (young ones do not get the "pied bill"...I've never seen such a size difference between two of them. The big one is "regular" sized for this species while the other was quite smaller than normal...and almost always leading. Made for a cute picture though!

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4 TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/320s., f/6.3, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, cropped for composition (~75% FF), the little one had an additional round of sharpening to the face as it was just barely out of dof range.

[Jeroen Stel]

Outstanding detail in this shot Daniel and interesting to see the size differences.
Love that low POV.

greetings,

Jeroen Stel

[Bill Dix]

The low POV and silky FG/BG make this a stunning shot. The size difference makes it fascinating -- hard to believe the little one is an adult. Great capture.

[Don Lacy]

Wonderful image Daniel love the low angle and beautiful colors through out the image

[Jim Crosswell]

Great image Daniel! I like the low angle, HA's, composition, reflections, IQ and sweet colours. You must be loving that extra reach with the 500 and 1.4 combo.

[dankearl]

It looks like an optical illusion.
Attractive color and your usual nice IQ.

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

This is marvellous Dan, cute birds & the size variation is intriguing !

[nrohrbacker]

Great low angle shot. He must have been the runt of the littler.

[Robert Kimbrell]

Very attractive image, the background color goes so well with birds.

[PhilCook]

Cute to Boot !....lovely shot Daniel, the light is very nice and sharp detail...backdrop and water is excellent .

[David Salem]

Very nice shot Daniel. Almost looks like a mom and baby. Great detail and I especially like the BG and FG, they are very nice. Techs look great. I thought maybe a bit more off the top but when I tried it I liked it better in the original due to the nice gradient BG. Well done.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Great light & low shooting angle. The IQ is superb.

[mohammad reza shahab]

Wonderful image Daniel,Great detail,light and very nice BG.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Nice low angle and it is amazing the size difference. I like this image a lot

[Frank Schauf]

Perfect comp and light, nice work.