Horned Grebe in Winter Plumage.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Encounters with this species, which we only see during migration locally, are always fun. Quite the cute bird with a striking eye.

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/1000s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, small crop for composition, lightened the far eye. Audio used.

[gail bisson]

Really like the color palette.
Great IQ and POV.
Good call on lightening the ye.It looks good.
Gail

[Robert Kimbrell]

A beautiful set of colors. Background color looks super here. Good details and low pov.

[Ross Taylor]

Hi Daniel,

I really love this shot. I have not yet seen this bird, love the eyes! The "almost submerged" camera perspective works very well here.

I really like how the tonality of the foreground is about the same as the head and back plumage. Those water droplets suggest it just came out of the water too.

Great work, and great find Daniel!

TFS
Ross

[Jonathan Ashton]

Beautiful shot Dan there is a certain tranquillity about the image.

[keith mitchell]

Lovely low shot Dan, coming straight at you is often difficult to get right, you certainly have got this one right.

Keith.

[Grace Scalzo]

Just love how the muted colors of this frame allow the red eyes to pop. Water droplets add as well. Such a great little grebe, well photographed!