Foraging Semipalmated Sandpiper.

[Daniel Cadieux]

These guys seemingly spend most of their time with their heads down as they poke and probe the wet sand and mud for tiny morsels of food.

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/100s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, cropped for comp, some debris in the water removed, added the catchlight.

[dankearl]

I really like the Pov and the artful, different pose and perspective.
A very nice effort....

[Colin Driscoll]

Great! I like the lifted foot and concentration, it's good seeing shots of birds doing stuff.

[John Robinson]

I agree ! A bird doing something !! Great stuff Couldn't you get a bit lower Dan ????
Cheers
John

[Steen Torner]

This is a fine image. To me the eye contact is very important.

The exposure, sharpness, composition and DOF is perfect.

A minor thing is the green "thing" in the Water to the left of the bird. I could have done without it as it is a bit disturbing.

Regards Steen

[gail bisson]

Very nice Dan. You have captured the foraging very well. Good idea to include a catchlight.
Love your low POV and as always nice IQ and I like the soft light.
I am OK with the green kelp to the left.
Gail

[William Dickson]

Very artistic Dan. Great DOF. and the SS brings the image alive. Good photography.

Will

[keith mitchell]

Very different pose Dan which you have caught very well ,simple and a pleasure to view.

Keith.

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Daniel, cool POV and a very nice perspective, getting low and dirty always works and provided a lovely one to one with the subject. Incredible techs, 1/100s not something I would look too, but you pulled it off, nice work. Overall colour and placement spot on, my only thought is, if there is any sharpening applied on the lighter 'ring' around the head I might mask that out and just have the head & bill sharp, to me it is emphasised to much by being lighter.

Great work Dan.

TFS
Steve

[Ágúst Svavar]

Very beautiful and unique image. Love the DOF!

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Excellent, and slightly, different image to the norm we see of 'peeps'.
I like everything about it.
TFS