Osprey With Fish

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image at the same location as my previous post. The Osprey on the left, as viewed, had just returned to the nest with a fish. The Osprey with the fish, snatched it up and flew to a nearby tree, where it perched and ate the fish. 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 270mm
1/2000 F/8 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 900 Auto 1WB, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2020 and Neat Image for noise reduction
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Mike Poole]

Lovely story to this shot Joe, I like both birds being in the frame, albeit I think a lot of people would have preferred just the bird with the fish. Maybe a little more space on the right might help. Do you have any later frames, be good to see if you did as the main Osprey is so dynamic. Nicely done

Mike

[gail bisson]

Very interesting shot. On the one hand, I like seeing both birds in the frame but, on the other hand, I find it a bit busy and think having the one osprey with the fish in the frame would be a stronger image.
Great BG and nice and sharp.
Gail

[Dorian Anderson]

This shot has a lot going on which is both a good and bad thing. The flying bird's head/face and fish are outstanding, but the OOF wing nearly-intersecting the second bird
is really distracting. There is also a disconnect between the two subjects, the left bird feeling like an after-thought against the dominating other.

[John Mack]

I like the story this image tells. I don't mind the other bird or the wing.