Ikura and seaweed

[arash_hazeghi]

Willet from FC, CA. It seems to carry fish eggs and a bit of seaweed stuck to its bill


hope you like it, image made with Nikon D850, Nikon 600 FL + TC14E III. ISO 1250, 1/4000sec at f/5.6. hand held. processed with C1P

[Dorian Anderson]

Great warm light on this guy, and the carried item is a nice touch. Great detail in that front wing.

[sasan nejadi]

excellent shot and great quality

[Daniel Cadieux]

Excellent image! Nothing to fault here - just awesomeness.

[gail bisson]

This is excellent ! Love the wing position and the slightly arched back and great HA.
Nice light and POPV,
Gail

[David Salem]

Holy crap Arash, this is awesome! Great pose, details and colors on this frame. Very nice

[Lorant Voros]

Wow. Super nice.Full down stroke, little head turn towards you. All tecs spot on as usual. Hats off again.

[Arthur Morris]

Beautiful downstroke and sharp! Love the head up flight posture ... with love, atie

[Glenn Conlan]

Looks like another tack sharp small bird flight shot, see you at the cliffs soon for falcon shots

[arash_hazeghi]

thank you all

[Arthur Morris]

As I have been saying for many months:

1- Good and half-way decent flight photographers (like me) will produce better, more consistently sharp images with Nikon than with Canon.
2- Great Canon flight photographers like Arash and David Salem and Doug Brown willl continue to make great images with their Nikon gear. But they will over time produce a superior body of incredible work and enjoy more consistently sharp flight images.
3- Excellent flight photographers like Tim Folz will continue to produce some great images with Canon but live with inconsistent AF.
4- Gail and Ann, and others who might switch: please e-mail for affiliate links: I have a guy who can get you the stuff cheaper than B&H with fast, personalized service. And it does not cost you one penny more. Remember, I switched after 10 seconds of flight photography ...

See the blog from mid-January on for my whole Canon to Nikon story.

with love, artie

ps: there are lots of things about Nikon that suck ...

[Arthur Morris]

Arah; Group AF? Where was the AF point at the moment of capture? (I am guessing that this is a small crop from above and behind...)

with love, artie

[arash_hazeghi]

Grp AF it was

[Arthur Morris]

Grp AF it was

Thank Arash. You missed this:

Where was the AF point at the moment of capture? (I am guessing that this is a small crop from above and behind...)

with love, artie

[Doug Brown]

Not sure how I missed this one Arash! Super image all the way around!