Brandt's Cormorant

[Dorian Anderson]

Sneaking this guy in under the April 30th wire......

Canon 500mm f/4 IS v1 + 1.4x III on EOS 5D Mark IV
1/800 at f/8, ISO 800, handheld, processed in LR

Cheers
Dorian

[Isaac Grant]

Super pleasing image. Feather details, pose, background, and that crazy eye are all top notch.

[John Mack]

Nice portrait here. Love that blue eye. Great background. The open mouth pose is awesome.

[Steve Kaluski]

Cool image with a great colour palette, nice timing.

TFS
Steve

[Tim Foltz]

Dorian, great shot of ol’ Blue Eyes... nice detail, color and light.

-Tim

[Lorant Voros]

Beautiful colors, good moment caught. Love to see it in this big presentation. The blue colors are gorgeous. Well done!

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent pose and details, love the open bill. On my screen it has a blue cast which I quickly tried to remove in this repost

TFS

[Daniel Cadieux]

Awesome! Great close-up, nice and sharp. I like both versions. The only thing I would do is darken the pupil. Great stuff!

[annmpacheco]

Love it Dorian!

[Michael Thompson]

wonderful close up with the bill open looking to the sky, love the colors in the eye, this would get my vote for theme winner this month

[Noel Heustis]

Dorian - I love the colors, the crazy detail in the eye, the beautiful clean bg, and obviously the open mouth action captured. I would have been beside myself to see this on the back of the camera. Great job.

[Don Lacy]

Wonderful image Dorian, Absolutely love the colors and the blue eye just grabs the viewers attention. Arash version is just a tad bit better if you wanted to go with pulling some of the blue out of the image.

[Dorian Anderson]

Thank you all for the kind words! And yes, Arash, the shot was a tad bit blue, so thanks.

This was the one keeper frame I got from a whole morning down at La Jolla, so I'm glad
you all like it so much!

Cheers!