Male Common Goldeneye.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Here's another image of the productive outing I had with both species of goldeneye. This one was gliding smoothly downstream, from left to right, when it seemingly thought it saw something fishy (me lying on the ice). It immediately started to swim hard against the current (now right to left), and once past me took off in frantic flight (but angling away, thus no images taken). Although looking proud and regal, you can get a sense that it has spotted me! The cloudy lighting conditions made it a joy to expose for them.

Canon 7DII + 500mm f/4II + 1.4 TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/1250s., f/5.6, ISO 1600, natural light handheld, pretty much full-frame, added a catchlight to liven the eye.

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Dan, this is really cool, especially the colour palette, it's really up the game in photographing subjects like this. Excellent PoV and head turn.

Very nice indeed.

TFS
Steve

[kevin Hice]

I like it nice low angle and the foggy look ,little wave on the breast adds a nice touch.

[Randy Stout]

Daniel:

You will have to start wearing a duck decoy on your head so you don't spook them !

Another lovely frame, great angle (wet again I suspect), I like the restrained processing, would be really easy to render this one too bright.

Cheers

Randy

[Jonathan Ashton]

Lovely shot Dan great exposure and a super angle, I like the slight glance too.
Am I sensing a little judicious use of Dehaze?

[Bill Dix]

Another artistic frame! Love the POV, bow wave and foggy conditions.

[John Mack]

Great frame. Like the wake in front of the bird. Nice low angle with a great pose.

[greg cowle]

I really like this style of image, almost monochrome, except for a pop of color on the main subject. Very artistic.