Cormorant

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image at Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 400mm (600mm FFE)
1/1000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering +1 EV ISO 560 AWB, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom 6 and Photoshop Elements 10
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Grace Scalzo]

Between your wood stork and this, you are on a portrait roll. I love the details and the patterns, and of course that blue eye. I think that you could crop about an inch off the bottom and have an even stronger presentation .

[Randy Stout]

Joe:

Agree about the crop, just to below the strong line of small feathers. The lines are nice, tilted head, of course that magical eye

Cheers

Randy

[Lorant Voros]

It is a very nice portrait, love the shape and details and the colors. Nice as it is, but with the cropping suggestion it would even be a stronger image. TFS.

[Karl Egressy]

Excellent portrait shot, Joe. I tend to agree with the cropping suggestion.

[gail bisson]

You are nailing these portraits Joe.
Perfect HA and love the feather scalloping.
Very nice and agree with Grace re:crop,
Gail

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thanks everyone for viewing, commenting, and suggesting improvements. I have changed the crop to reflect the suggestion, very much appreciated.