"Bathing" beauty

[Jay Shah]

Beautiful Sibia --cooling off while I was covered in a few layers to keep warm at 6000 ft on the mountains of South West China in last December.

Nikon D500, 600 mm F4,
f4, 1/640, ISO1600

[Alex Becker]

Nice theme image -- I like the water drops and low POV. To me, the head, particularly the eye, is just too soft here. The feathers on the chest look pretty good overall but just too much motion for 1/640 on the shaking head. Composition wise I would prefer more room on the LHS and less on the right, and some more room on the bottom too if you have it. TFS -- looks like you got a lot of nice images, especially bathing ones, on your trip.

[John Mack]

Agree about the focus, love the water drops here.

[Jay Shah]

Alex & John, thanks for your comments. In retrospect, eyes did get softer (may be caused by noise removal). So instead of trying to fix this image, I found another one with mote interesting HA. Please review and comment.