American White Pelican... breeding adult

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image of a American White Pelican with breeding centerboard/horn on it's bill at Lake Morton in Lakeland, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED, image captured at 290mm
1/1000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 160 Auto 1 WB, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2020 and Neat Image for noise reduction
Cropped from 2x3 to 4x5 for composition and presentation

P.S. Learn more about Lake Morton in the BAA Middle Florida Photography Site Guide that Artie and I co-authored. It is available on the Birds As Art Online Store.

[david spital]

Wonderful image. Very pleasing detail.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Another beautiful pelican portrait. Excellent details in the whites, and I like the faintly streaked background. I'd be tempted to clean up the grayish imperfection on the bill, but otherwise just about perfect!

[Ilija Dukovski]

That's really beautiful. Love the high-key kind of feel. Also I like the white yellow color combo.
Very nice.

[John Mack]

A stunner of a pelican portrait here. Nice detail. The pose is great as well.

[kevin Hice]

Joe great pelican image. Great whites with nice clean blue background goes well with the Whites.TFS