Snail Kite with extracted snail meat

[Arthur Morris]

This image was created on 3 May 2021 at a lake near my home in central Florida while on a flats boat. I used the hand held Sony FE 600mm f/4 GM OSS lenswith the Sony FE 1.4x Teleconverter and The One, the Sony Alpha 1 Mirrorless digital camera (while standing –double gasp!). ISO 2000. Exposure determined via Zebras with ISO on the rear dial: 1/1600 sec. at f/5.6 (wide open) in Manual mode. AWB at 7:18:39am on a clear morning. Center Zone/AF-C was active at the moment of exposure and performed perfectly.

Learn more about the creation of this image and see a wider version made by a friend 90 seconds before in the blog post here. Along with a nice photo of me and my very tall friend Clemens Van der Werf.

As for the image, don't be shy; all comments are welcome and appreciated.

with love, arite

ps: hand holding at 840mm is not something that I do regularly, especially from a rocking boat.