Preening Juvenile Ring-billed Gull

[Daniel Cadieux]

Probably a love-it-or-hate-it image, but it was a lot of fun photographing this gull and experimenting with backgrounds by moving my position. The gull was still wet from an earlier bath, and I thought the backlighting gave neat texture to those curled feathers. I also like the feathers being pulled in this frame.

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/1600s., f/9, ISO 400, FF, deepened the blacks in post.

[keith mitchell]

Dan something different will always rock my boat and this certainly does,gives to give the viewer plenty to think about,I'm a love it!

[Steve Kaluski]

Hey Dan, like your thinking here, great vision and VERY artistic, nice work.

TFS
Steve

[Glennie Passier]

Beautiful. Well seen, well captured. I love just the tiniest rim light around the bill and the light on the breast.

Thank you for sharing Dan!

[John Rowell]

Love the color and the mood that it generatres. Very interesting shot, glad to see you experimenting with these types of shots.

[David Salem]

I'm 50/50 on this one Dan. I love the top 50% with the raised rim lit feathers but the bottom 50% doesn't work as well for me. Wish the beak was silhouetted by the golden water and didn't have the feathers on the chest. Very cool none the less and great job looking at things with an artistic eye. TFS

[Allen Sparks]

Hi Daniel,
I really like it - a different artistic point of view. The golden light and silhouetted look are terrific IMO.
Allen

[Satish Ranadive]

Very artistic image. love the golden curly feathers on the neck as well on the throat. Superb composition.

Regards,
Satish.

[Marina Scarr]

Glad to see you're thinking outside the box. Daniel. Love this silhouette and all the feather details. In a perfect world it would have been even better to see more definition of the beak, but I am liking this.