Gannet with nesting material

[Mike Poole]

One for this months theme, a gannet on a windy cliff face from earlier this year.

Canon 5d3
500mm f4 is
ISO 500
1/4000th f7.1

Mike

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Mike, love the eye contact from those blue eyes, and even better that the grasses in his beak are not obscuring his eyes. Lovely exposure on the whites, and those blowing grasses in the FG are making me cold.

[keith mitchell]

You have captured the windy conditions very well,it's good that the eye does just show through that beak full of grass which cannot have been easy .This is a very striking image Mike.

Keith.

[William Dickson]

Very well done Mike. the grasses in its beak really make this image stand out. I love how you can see the eye through the grass. Nice colours throughout.

Will

[Glenn Conlan]

Well done, shows excellent depiction of the environmental conditions that this bird lives in.

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Mike - this looks really good. Great that you can see the eye through all the grass. I agree the viewer can feel the wind. Nice control of the whites too.

TFS,
Rachel

[Mike Poole]

Thanks everyone, comments much appreciated as always. I have to put the clear eye down to the unlimited frames of digital - I took a burst of 5 or 6 and this was the only clear view - couldn't afford bursts like that in the film days!

Mike