Just After Take-Off

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

This is an image of the female snail kite just after she left the cyprus tree. The male had come in with a snail and she flew out of the nest expecting to get it but the male turned around and ate it himself. Needless to say she was not pleased. The weather was pending rain all morning so not the greatest light.

Nikon D3
Nikon 600mm F4
ISO 400
1/1000. F6.3
manual

[Lance Peters]

Awesome Judy, love the wing position, the slightly open beak and the detail.

Amazing.

:)

[Stephen Stephen]

Judy I like the full upsweep of the wings and the dangling feet.

[Raul Quinones]

Great picture, agree with above comments, very nice pose. Great series.

[Dion Lifton]

Ditto Raul , this is great .

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the wing position and dangling feet and the story behind it. The catchlight looks rather large.

[Fabs Forns]

Great pose, Judy she looks wonderful. I think there's a slight magenta cast caused by poor lighting condition, in Color balance, move the magenta/green slider an couple of points towards the greens.

[Harold Davis]

looks great judy!! love the wings up position and the dangling feet!! awesome job!!

[Arthur Morris]

Hi Judy, Just realized that you have the same initials as my older daughter, Jennifer Laruen Morris. I love the raised wings but the color balance looked way off to me; there seemed to be too much red/magnenta. I used Robert O'Toole's Average Blur trick to balance the color, worked a bit on the eye, and added a bit of black to the neutrals and the blacks.

[Arthur Morris]

While looking at the repost I realized that this could use a crop from the bottom and the left to tighten things up.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Many thanks Artie for all the tips. We are all learning so much and it is greatly appreciated. Oh yes I like the repost and crop and thanks for taking the time to work on it !!!!

[Arthur Morris]

You are most welcome.