YOGA BIRD

[douglas hayes]

Early morning Tai Chi stretch for the multi-colored Black-necked Stilt who are most enjoyable photo subject with a plethora of behavioral patterns.




MKIV 500MM 6.3 1/1000 800 ISO

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Hi Douglas,
Cool pose, nice exposure and nice fg/bg colors.
Your image needs a good amount of CW rotation imo.

[John Robinson]

Douglas
Agree about the rotation, but apart from that , a cracker. One of my favourite birds.(Not photographed yet though and maybe never will)
Cheers
JR

[Marina Scarr]

Fun behavior you captured here in nice muted light. Your image needs quite a bit of CW rotation.

[douglas hayes]

Is this closer to CW

[Marina Scarr]

I don't understand your question, Doug. If you look at your bird, you can see that it's slanting downward which means it is in need of clockwise rotation.

[douglas hayes]

Had trouble uploading

[Marina Scarr]

Your RP is an improvement, but the stilt is still headed downhill. I used the crop tool on the legs and their reflection to get it straight. Her is what it looks like with the necessary crop after the rotation.

[keith mitchell]

Great looking image ,I think Marina as got the rotation spot on ,very nice indeed.

Keith.

[gail bisson]

I think the need for rotation has been addressed and I would like to see you repost as per Marina's in pane 8.
I would have liked a bit more head turn towards us as well.
The pose is nice with a nice clean foreground and BG.
The whites lack detail in a couple of areas on the throat/cheek area and on the flank. I would see what you can recover there,
Gail

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the pose, calm water, ripples and Marina's repost levels the image perfectly. Nice image Douglas.