Skimmer in flight

[Alfred Forns]

From Marco Island last year Great place for skimmers This year colony did not do well due to early season storms

Comments welcome and much appreciated

Canon 1DMk2n
70-200 f 4.0 IS 1.4X
Av 0
ISO 400
f 8.0 1/1600 sec

[DanWalters]

Nice shot. I really like the background and the clouds in the corner.

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

This works for me. The bg color contrast is very nice.
The wing pose is also fine. The head is lightly soft on my screen.
Szimi

[David Hemmings]

Very nice capture Alfred, I like the clouds and the fact that the face and eye are visible:cool:

[Jeff Wear]

very nice --not easy to get a skimmer looking like a tern -color and comp very nice

[Glenn Bartley]

Cool image. I like the sky/cloud BG. The eye doesnt look "tack sharp" to me....but that could just be me.

[c.w. moynihan]

Love the close proximity of the bird along with the clouds in the blue-bird sky.

[Jeff Nadler]

It looks superb to me Alfred.

[Fabs Forns]

Love the wing spread and clouds :)

[Mike McCarthy]

Yeah...me too. What they all said. Nice capture Al. Nice looking bird as well.

[Milo Burcham]

Nice shot of these peculiar birds. Love how the couds frame the image

[Judd Patterson]

The fine pose and background clouds really make this image. Very nice job Alfred! A little less subject movement would be a bonus for big prints, but this is great. Let's hope for good weather in `08. :)

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Great wing position and great colors!!!