Long-billed Curlew

[gail bisson]

Canon 1dx
600mm and 1.4x
ISO 800 SS F 5.6 SS1/1250
Taken at Fort DeSoto 2 years ago. Early morning.
Comments and critiques always appreciated and learned from with thanks,
Gail

[Joseph Przybyla]

Beautiful bird, nicely shown. Wonderful capture and timing to show the crab. As many times as I have been there I have yet to photograph this bird, a nemesis for sure. Maybe tomorrow will be different, leaving early morning to go there. Thank you for sharing, Gail.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Gail a well timed shot to get the " crab action " , well done !!!
Well composed and you nice detail and tones . Sweet light to round this up to being a very pleasing shot .
Just good work !!!

TFS Andreas

[P-A. Fortin]

Awesome. The lighting is great and the crab "mid-air" really puts it over the top.

I keep looking back at the image and I keep changing my mind about the orange leaf (?) on the lower left side. Sometimes I'd clone it out, then a few minutes later I actually like it.

[Joe Subolefsky]

Great capture love the light and crab.
I would probably take just a sliver off the top to clean up the dark edge of the frame but that's nitpicking.

[adrian dancy]

A superb capture and excellent IQ. Wish this were mine.

[Lorant Voros]

What a great timing! Nice IQ, light and composition too. I'd sharpen the head slightly less. Beautiful shot, Gail.

[arash_hazeghi]

Excellent pose and details, sharpness is good and light is sweet. I wish you had used a higher ISO and faster SS to get the crab a bit sharper

TFS

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Gail, love the low perspective, and that light is simply exquisite, which has brought out the colours on the Curlew nicely. Very well timed to have the crab between the long beak, and I do like that OOF BG too. Well captured.