Blacksmith Lapwing

[Stu Bowie]

Whilst out shooting Gulls at this location, I couldnt resist having a shot at this Blacksmith Lapwing in the water showing a clean reflection. Captured early morning.

Canon 1D Mark IV
Canon 300 F/2.8 +2X TC = 600mm
1/2500
F/6.3
ISO 800

Hand held

[Tobie Schalkwyk]

Beautiful, Stu! Love the clean BG & FG, perfect reflection, nice feather detail, nice crop. The bright spot in the eye 'gives it life'. Nice one - well one!

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Stu - What great mirror-like water, so smooth. Nice exp control and beautiful reflection. Well done.

TFS,
Rachel

[keith mitchell]

Stuart my only little nit is the bird is a bit central ,that apart you have done a great job with the exposure ,that reflection is super, smashing piece of work..

Keith.

[Joseph Przybyla]

A beauty Stu, lovely bird and reflection. Nice exposure and detail. If mine I would try moving the bird and reflection to the lower left side of the image, only because I like negative space in an image. The viewers eyes can wander the image always coming back to the subject. Just something to try, nice image as it is.

[Tom van den Brandt]

Beautiful image, well exposed and great detail. Love the little red eye and reflection.

Cheers, Tom

[Stu Bowie]

my only little nit is the bird is a bit central

Thanks Keith. My reason for the placement as posted was that I wanted to keep most of the trailing ripples. I do agree it could still move back a touch.

Thanks everyone else for your feedback.

[keith mitchell]

Stuart I can see your point re the ripples, so leave well alone.

Cheers Keith.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the exposure, walking pose, reflection and sharpness. I would take a little off the bottom. Excellent image Stuart!

[Greg Oakley]

Very nice simple, but strong image Stuart with your trademark sharpness and high IQ

[Lorant Voros]

I like the perfect reflection and the clean design of the image. I would go a bit tighter on the composition.