Avian Image of the Week for the week ending Aug. 23rd, 2013: Gail Bisson - Common Tern feeding Juvie

[Daniel Cadieux]

Congratulations Gail!

Canon 1DX
f 600mm and 2x III
ISO 1600
SS 1/1000 F 8.0. In water, on belly with lowered tripod and scratching myself like heck because the "no-see-ums" were eating me alive!!
Took this while visiting with Grace Scalzo last week. Melissa and Emily were guests as well.
I just got my 2x and am trying to ride the learning curve with it. Slightly slower AF and need for smaller F stop make flight shots a lot harder.
For this shot I just focused on the juvie and started firing away when I saw the juvie getting excited because Mom was flying in with a bug.- AKA spray and pray!
Taken at 7:05 PM
Small crop of 25% and added a sliver of canvas on the top.
PP :Crop, added canvas on top, NR on BG and NR on adults' wing ( very very light on wing), lightened the adults eye with dodge tool and Detail Extractor on birds at 4% and 8% on adults' eye, USM on JPEG at 40%.
Comments and critiques always appreciated and learned from with thanks.

[Marina Scarr]

Congrats on this terrific image, Gail!!!

[David Salem]

Great shot Gail. Congrats on IOW.

[Melissa Groo]

Beautiful work, Gail! Congrats on this well deserved IOTW.

[Grace Scalzo]

Nicely done, Gail.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

So much action and wonderful details here! well deserved Gail!

[Diane Miller]

Don't think I saw this one before -- well deserved! I love the "flat earth"look!

[Doug Brown]

Congrats on getting IOTW Gail!