Ringed plover

[Jonathan Ashton]

Tripod Canon 7D Canon 500mm f4 & 1.4TC ISO 320 +0.3 1/1600 sec f6.3
These little guys were on the go nearly all the time, this is just about the only straightforward still portrait I got.
All C&C welcome.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

They are very active and it is not easy to make a decent image of them! you got the right HA and with some nice details in this one.

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful portrait, great details and eye contact.

[Richard Flack]

Awesome photo. I love the background.

[Shawn Zierman]

Excellent shooting angle for the terrain, perfect I'd say... I like the texture of the ground. To fine tune here, a consideration would be to lighten the eye/catchlight...it's fairly dark as is due to the elevated angle of the light source.

[gail bisson]

This looks just like our NA juvie semipalmated plover. Are they the same species?
I love this type of environment with the little pools of water in the mud flat dips.
Good angle and IQ.
Gail

[Daniel Cadieux]

My first instinct was that an even lower angle would be cool...but I agree that the current view of the ground's undulations is pretty neat. The HA is not per say, but I feel the image would have been stronger had it been angled a bit more towards us. Still well done!

[dankearl]

I like everything about this, very nice.
I might remove the highlights off the beak.

[Tim King]

I like the multi-puddled sandy bottom. I like how these birds stand very still for you. Fine job.