Just a few hours old, and riding the bus already - common loon with new chick

[Randy Stout]

This image was captured in June. The chick had hatched just a few hours before this shot, and was taking a break from swimming.

D500 500mm AFS f/5.0 ISO 640 1/1250s.

Taken from my kayak

Modest crop for comp, cleaned a few of the worst spots in the water, removed a strong yellow cast

Advice and comments always appreciated.

Cheers

Randy

[Steve Kaluski]

Love the POV here Randy and the side elevation of the subject, good you didn't crop the reflection. The open bill is a nice touch.

Visually I just wonder if it needs the smallest of CCW rotation, not by PS, but by eye?

TFS
Steve

[Randy Stout]

Steve:

Thanks for the observations, and I do agree about the CCW. .6 degrees was about perfect.

I had looked at the image so long I missed that!

Cheers

Randy

[Steve Kaluski]

Your welcome Randy. if it worked great, nice to know the old eyes are falling just yet, cheers.

[Adhika Lie]

Wow Randy, this is just wow!! I love those reeds in the OOF BG. Perfect complement to the bird here as it shows the environment

[Joseph Przybyla]

Your Loon images make me so much wish I was in northern Michigan. Absolutely lovely with the greens, blacks, and whites. The love of a caring parent captured perfectly. Thank you for sharing, Randy.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Very, very appealing setting Randy. The hint of grass shapes in the background is killer good. Two great head angles, and I love the adult's raised tail feathers. I wonder if you removed too much yellow? The image seems a touch blue to me.

[John Mack]

Very nice love the low angle and the little one hitching a ride.

[William Dickson]

Lovely setting with great details on the birds. Very peaceful and pleasing to the eye. I also see a blueish cast

Will

[Alex Becker]

A very pleasing image -- love the setting the pose and of course the little one. You've got such a nice collection of these loons. I agree on a slight blue cast but an easy fix. TFS

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

A lovely image Randy. I love the little one riding the adult and the open bill with tongue showing is a great bonus. The BG is super too.

[Mike Singh]

Hi Randy
Not much else to add. Beautifully composes photograph.
Mike

[Isaac Grant]

That little guy is over the top cute. Great head angle on both of them. I do think the birds have a blue/green cast to them that I would work on removing.