Peruvian Pelican over Lima Harbor, #2

[Bill Dix]

Same spot as my previous post: a fishing harbor in Lima in the fog. Different Peruvian Pelican, as judged by the color on his mammoth bill. This one is also full frame, but here I moved the pelican just slightly aft to give him some room to fly into.

D7200, 500f4, ISO 3200, 1/1250s @ f/6.3 manual. Gitzo and Mongoose.

[William Dickson]

Love the detail and flight pose on the bird, colours look great. Although the BG is nice Bill, I personally preferred the BG on your previous post, probably because I seen more of the boat, but its different tastes I suppose. But, very nice as is.

TFS

Will

[Karl Egressy]

This image is nine but would look better with a clear background IMO, Bill.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Bill, excellent flying pose captured here with the raised wings, and well exposed on the blacks. I quite like how he is framed between the two different coloured boats.

[Marina Scarr]

Kind of fun to have the bird framed between the boats. I always like to see something different.

[Grace Scalzo]

I find my eye is moving nicely through this frame, investigating the boats, the colors and the bird. I very much like it, Bill. That said, I think that the bird needs more pop, a livlier and sharper eye and the underwing lifted as far as brightness. I'm wondering about doing something like saturating the blue, the green and the orange of his beak and going very modern and almost graphic with this one, bringing emphaisis to the colors and the design more than the bird???

[Bill Dix]

Thanks Grace. Your suggestion captured my imagination. Is this what you had in mind? It goes a few steps beyond realistic, but it does grab your eye.

[Jonathan Ashton]

I like the shot Bill, I too was about to suggest bringing out a little more detail in the eye, I think the repost as you indicate is a little OTT.

[Arthur Morris]

Bill colors in Pane 7 are way overdone. Way. Starting with the original some NIK/CEP work would really help the underwing. See my comment on Gail Bisson's hen merganser in flight image.

How long were you in Lima? Did you get to due the Inca Terns up close? Was there much else to photograph? a

ps: the boats add a neat touch.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the wing position, exposure and composition. A different and interesting image Bill.

[Bill Dix]

Hi Artie. Yes, well overcooked as I noted.

We were only in Lima for a morning of photography, on our way to the Peruvian Amazon. We arrived at dinnertime, and by prior arrangement with a local guide, Geoffrey and I were picked up at the hotel before dawn the next morning. We said "Take us to the Inca Terns", which he did, at the fishing harbor/fish market pier. Besides the Inca Terns and Peruvian Pelicans there were several gulls new to me, with the Belcher's Gull being the most cooperative. Here are several Inca Tern shots:

http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...ight=inca+tern

http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...ight=inca+tern

We then went to a private reserve south of Lima, where the highlights were Many-colored Rush Tyrant, White-cheeked Pintail, Grey-hooded Gull, Amazilia Hummingbird and Vermilion Flycatcher, plus others. The larger national preserve nearby offered lots of other specialties, if we had just had more time. Our guide dropped us off at the hotel just in time to meet my wife and other travel companions for lunch before catching the flight to Iquitos. Altogether we probably had 5 hours in Lima that morning, half of which was spent in traffic or in heavy fog. But a very productive few hours of photography.

[Arthur Morris]

Many, many thanks Bill I am gonna try to e-mail you now. a