Ring-billed Gull With Catch

[Norm Dulak]

D7200 w/Tamron 150-600mm @ 550mm
ISO 800; f/6.3, 1/6400 sec; MM -1

This Ring-billed Gull was photographed below the Conowingo Dam in Maryland.

Thanks for looking, and for any comments or suggestions you may have.

[Daniel Cadieux]

These guys will catch and eat anything and everything they can get their bills to!! I like the takeoff pose, and the fish prey. Quite a large dip in the water, neat. The harsh light and high dynamic range scene gave you blocked blacks and blown whites, perhaps that can be tamed in raw conversion - worth a try.

[Norm Dulak]

Thanks Daniel. Good suggestion, which I hope this repost at least in part addresses.

[Daniel Cadieux]

It does! I suspect there is not much to do about the white on the fish, but there is a very nice difference in the gull's black primaries.