Belated Happy New Year.

[dankearl]

Wood Duck

1/3200, f5.6, 420mm (300 w/ 1.4), iso1000, D800, Handheld.

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[Marina Scarr]

Happy New Year to you,Dan. What a way to start the new year! Love the colors here and all of the water spray.

[Ed Kelly]

Color and contrast is great.

Ed

[David Cowling]

What treat to see this. We don't have this species of duck in the UK. The colours are beautiful and you have captured a lovely pose here.

[William Dickson]

Very nice Dan. Great pose and low angle. Nice colours, just wished the head was a wee bit more angled towards us. Thanks for sharing

[Andre Pretorius]

Effective POV, stunning colours. Like the profile angle. I would reduce the sat on blues a bit.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Happy New Year to you as well Dan! This duck looks happy to bring in 2015 with a very dynamic pose. Nice composition. I do find the blues a tad strong on the subject itself - I'd selectively reduce them. All else looks good to me.

[Robert Kimbrell]

A beautiful pose Dan, The colors look good to me. Have a great New Year.

[David Salem]

Love the after bathing flapping pose. Happy New Year to you too. When are you coming to Cali to visit your daughter?

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the pose, water drops, low angle, colours and composition. Happy New Year to you as well. Well done Dan.

[gail bisson]

Happy New Year to you and yours Dan!
Love the dynamic pose and I like this view of the back feathers.
Agree about the blues but otherwise a nice image,
Gail