Red-necked Grebe.

[Karl Egressy]

Taken a few minutes after sunrise in the sweet morning light.
Thanks for looking.

Canon 5D Mark III
Canon 500 f4.0 L IS II. +1.4x III.
ISO 1250
1/1600 s
f6.3

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Karl, exquisite light, and love the angled pose. Nice and sharp where it counts, and I really like the overall colours in the image. Great capture.

[Mike Poole]

Same as Stu said, great light, techs spot on, I'd be delighted if this was mine, the colour of the reflections complement the bird nicely.

Mike

[Bill Dix]

Beautiful light, great pose. Lovely colors. My personal preference would be to remove the second catchlight. This would also work nicely as a pano without the reflection.

[Lorant Voros]

Wow. Wonderful colors here, great eye contact, nice shooting angle for the reflection. It has a super autumn feel with the lights, despite it is spring time. Well done, Karl.

[keith mitchell]

It's all those amazing colours that do it for me Karl,like the reflection of that nice looking Grebe.

[Richard Flack]

Beautiful image Karl, sweet light and stunning colours in the BG. The subject is also a really beautiful one! I would really like to see this without the full shadow and more space to the right and above. TFS

[William Dickson]

Wow, give me some light like that Karl. Lovely image, nice pose and POV

Will

[arash_hazeghi]

love the low angle and the light, the calm water was a plus too. I'd remove the specular reflection of the catchlight in the water

well done

[Marina Scarr]

Colors and light overall are absolutely stunning. I would clean up the eye's reflection a little bit if it were mine.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent image. Very nice pose, wonderful colors in the frame, nice reflection and composition.

Regards,
Satish.