"Not interested, Fella!"

[Sandy Witvoet]

After a four month hiatus, with the frigid temps... took my gear for a ride the other day.... the only open water was a river-fed lake... to my disappointment, all the birds were about a half mile out in the lake. As I was sitting on shore (telling the camera that, well, sometimes it's ok to just go for a ride...NOT!), a couple of Goldeneyes showed up in an unfrozen bayou. Lovey-dovey at first... until "Dad" tried a sneak-attack... didn't work out so well for him!.... at least I got a few images!
Pano seems to work best for this? Canon 60D, 400mm F4 DO, f/5, 1/2000, ISO400.

[Warren Spreng]

That's great! Love it that all you can see is his eye and the expression says, "What the?????" Nice and sharp.

[Diane Miller]

Another jilted suitor.... Great catch with perfect timing!! No nits from me.

[Doug West]

I agree, this is pretty awesome. What's nice is you have another option of
cropping out the trailing duck, focusing on the splash off and have two
great images.

Doug

[Sandy Witvoet]

Thanks very much for your comments! Was nice to pretty much have them in the same focal plane. The male's eye was quite vivid, even in the other images I took of him.