Cape Teal's

[Stu Bowie]

Another image from my recent holiday in Cape Town. I'm glad I achieved good DOF on both, and both with full downstroke of their near wings. The BG is a distant mountain, and taken early morning.

Canon 1D Mark IV
Canon 300mm F/2.8 +2X TC = 600mm
1/3200
F/7.1
ISO 640

Hand Held.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Beautiful - exposure, colours, ideal lighting and pose lovely sky what more could you ask for?
Composition: I like, I did wonder about lowering the ducks just a few mm in the frame??

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Stu - Love the symmetry to this with their identical wing position. Beautiful, subtle bg colors and the eye really pops out. I agree with Jon about a little less below.

TFS,
Rachel

[John Mack]

Nice how they both have the same wing position here. The background is great. Nice one.

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks for the feedback Jon, Rachel and John. Here is a repost with some taken off the bottom.

[Randy Stout]

STU:

Great pose symmetry, amazing how their eyes pop out, even at such a small size. Texture in bg helps. I do like the slight comp change.

Well captured

Randy

[Jonathan Ashton]

Rinky tinky Stu!

[annmpacheco]

i like the lowered ducks Stu, and these ducks are beauties, that red eye is "eye-catching!" I like the BG as well, very sweet frame.

[Allen Sparks]

Hi Stu,
Very nice frame. Terrific that both ducks are so sharp and a great BG. I like the repost best.
Allen