Green-winged Teal

[David Salem]

I Caught this handsome drake during our waterfowl workshop a few years ago. The scapulars on these little speedsters light up like neon with the right angle and light.
Hope you like him.

1DX---840mm---f6.3---ss1/3200th---ISO640---Hand held@8:30am---40% crop

Thanks as always for looking and for your input. I appreciate it

David

[arash_hazeghi]

Remember this one Dave! an awesome frame of the teal, we gotta go shoot these ducks some time

[Tim Foltz]

Dave, I was just talking about the ducks today, I hope we have a better season than last year, but we might have another very wet winter.
Nice wing position, details and colors, killer BG too.

-Tim

[David Salem]

Thanks Arash! You've never been out with us shooting ducks before. You should try this winter. Beautiful birds with lots of color and pretty fast and challenging, especially Teal! See ya in a few weeks

[David Salem]

Thanks Tim! Yes we need rain, just not all at once Hope we have a good season too. See ya soon

[Peter Scholer]

The greens are certainly displayed beautifully. Lovely detail in the body and the downward wings really show it all off so well. Really nice lighting and angle. Fantastic capture.

[gail bisson]

Tack sharp, great light and perfect wing position. What more can you ask for?
Lovely image,
Gail

[Mike Poole]

The duck master strikes again!

Nothing at all to crit on this one, faultless in my opinion. great wing position, pin sharpening, great light giving great colours. I'll stop now, thats enough of an ego boost for one day,

Mike

[Daniel Grossi]

This gets me so excited about seeing ducks again this fall/winter. Great shot David!

[Jonathan Ashton]

Whoa! What a beauty absolutely amazing. Colours pose timing exposure it all comes together and hand held too- pretty darned good I'd say!

[Bill Dix]

Doesn't get any better than this! Great wing position, colors, detail. Nicely done, Dave.

[annmpacheco]

Duck master indeed, stunningly beautiful David, IQ is tops...

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Dave, nailed again. I really like the full down stroke of the near wing, tack sharp, and what stunning colours brought out by the light. The Teal pops nicely against the BG.

[David Salem]

Thanks for the nice comments everyone!! I'm Glad you like the frame.

[William Dickson]

All been said here and I agree, a lovely image indeed. Those greens are awesome.

Will

[Doug Brown]

Brings back memories! Nicely captured!

[John Whaley]

Everything working together here. Beautiful image.

[Isaac Grant]

DIF Master. Love everything here David. Truly great and an inspiration to the rest of us mere mortals who dream of getting a shot like this of these tiny speed demons.

[David Salem]

Thanks again everyone!!

Isaac,
You're more than capable of getting shots like these. You just need to come out to Southern California and hang out with us for a week.
Whenever you can make it, you have a standing invitation

[Isaac Grant]

One of these days I'll have to take you up on that. Until then one can only dream....