Black Winged Stilt - Juvie

[Stu Bowie]

These guys were very skittish, and would fly away and either land a little further away in front of me, or fly and turn back behind me, along the edge of the dam. I just had to be patient and wait for a decent shot as they flew around deciding where they were going. This was taken early morning at a water works in Cape Town during my december holidays. The BG is distant mountains.

Canon 1D Mark IV
Canon 300mm F/2.8 +2X TC = 600mm
1/2000
F/6.3
ISO 640

Manual exposure

Hand held

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Stu, this pops nicely, the early morning has worked well here.

TFS
Steve

[Andreas Liedmann]

HI Stu , great shot . Very nice IQ and the BG is so priceless good .
Agree with Steve that the subject stands out nicely , very well captured .

TFS Andreas

[Charlene Bacchioni]

Beautiful sharp image,great eye contact and lighting Stu.

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Stu - Nice and sharp. The eye is great and I agree it pops nicely from the bg. Well done.

TFS,
Rachel

[Joe Subolefsky]

Really nice the eye contact makes it for me.

[gail bisson]

I love the light and the grey BG.
Nice and sharp.
The slightly exposed belly that is turned towards the viewer is different and adds to the image.
Gail

[Jim Crosswell]

Beautiful image Stuart! I like how the bird is looking over at you, IQ, composition and clean complimentary BG.

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks a stack for all the feedback and comments everyone.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Great flight shot Stu. Patience has paid off. Well done mate.
I wonder if there are images in the sequence showing a mountain? I thought it would be greenish.

[Stu Bowie]

I wonder if there are images in the sequence showing a mountain? I thought it would be greenish.

Thanks mate. If you google Table Mountain, you will see its a solid piece of rock, ( with a bit of vegatation on top ) and this image was captured with the back of Table Mountain in the very far distance, thus showing the 'grey' look.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Cool. No way one would've known. :)