Most bird photographers look at me funny when I say that always look forward to photographing the RBGs during April. They are a "dirt bird" to most, but not me! Just look at how gorgeous they are at this time of year. If this was a rare bird, these same bird photographers would be flocking (pardon the pun) to be able to photograph them and would be oohing and aahing at its beauty
Canon 7DII + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/2000s., f/8, ISO 400, natural light, handheld, full-frame.
I totally agree with you Dan. Gulls are great looking birds and wonderful to photograph, as I have done on many occasion. Fabulous looking whites with nice 'soft' feathers, and great detail. The colour of the eye almost matching the colours on the bill brings a lot to the image. As does the greys on the bird and on the BG. I like the POV and HA.
As an avid birder and gull aficionado, I really like this. Subtleties like orbital ring color are often used to identify the different species,
so it's nice to get such a close and nicely exposed look at this guy.
Can't stop looking at this image, very cool! Exposure of the whites is perfect showing off tons of fine feather detail. The clean beak is great, did you do any clean up in PP to get it looking that good? Catchlight in the eye + eye contact, also the red eyelids are really cool. Great work Daniel, it's inspiring me to go to the coast soon and get some Gull photography in!
Thanks a bunch guys! Jim, glad you like it too. This was as perfectly clean an individual I have seen. Some other gulls were bathing in a nearby puddle - I suspect this one had done the same earlier and its bill was still as clean as we see here.
Oooh and ah! You know how I feel about gulls. What was the BKGR?
with love, artie
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