Thanks Mom!

[Bill Dix]

The Common Tern adult and juvie were too close to get the whole birds in the frame, so I went for a tight crop. Admittedly a better head turn from the juvie would have been nice, and a split-second earlier might have caught the moment of transfer; but I liked the detail on the adult in this frame.

D7000, 500f4, ISO 800, 1/3200s @ f/6.3 manual, gitzo and mongoose.

[Daniel Cadieux]

You are right, the details on the adult are fantastic! I'm especially liking all the water drops on it. Because of the nature of the interaction I'm OK with the young one looking away. I do feel the comp could use a bit more room at right, and perhaps more detail to be extracted form the black crown (although some of them look very un-recoverable). Neat stuff...

[William Dickson]

Very nice Bill. A very lovely image indeed. Well done

[Alan Murphy]

Awesome intimate detail on this one Bill.

[keith mitchell]

Bill I think you are being a bit hard on yourself re the head turn but I suppose we all are trying for perfection, you have superb detail and sharpness and very well exposed,it's a cracking image.

Keith.

[Tom van den Brandt]

Great details here! Wonderful shot.

Cheers, Tom

[Arthur Morris]

Pretty darned amazing--these guys feed so, so fast. I am fine with both head angles. Easy to add a bit of canvas right. Where?

I'd love to see the full frame original capture.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Nice capture Bill. I am loving the interaction shown, a special image. Thank you for sharing.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Bill you are killing it with these terns. The detail here is top notch.

[Bill Dix]

Thanks everyone for your comments.

Artie, here's the full-frame shot, taken last week at Forsythe NWR, aka Brigantine. As you can see, not the optimum perch. Some oof vegetation obscured the very bottom of the juvie, just beneath this frame edge. I considered a vertical crop with some wing-tip repair, but opted for the tight horizontal crop per the OP. Thanks for looking.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Beautiful moment captured, Bill. The detail is brilliant. Head position is fine.




Geoffrey

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks everyone for your comments.

Artie, here's the full-frame shot, taken last week at Forsythe NWR, aka Brigantine. As you can see, not the optimum perch. Some oof vegetation obscured the very bottom of the juvie, just beneath this frame edge. I considered a vertical crop with some wing-tip repair, but opted for the tight horizontal crop per the OP. Thanks for looking.

Thanks Bill. IQ certainly held up well to a very large crop. And you have room to go just a bit wider on the right.

[Diane Miller]

You caught such a great moment, with gorgeous detail! I'd go with the full frame shot, but crop a little from the right. But for the web, your crop shows the detail that we can't see in the full frame version.