A star is born!

[gail bisson]

Backlit piping plover chick (about 1 week old)
Canon 1 DX3 600mm and 1.4 x
ISO 1600 F 5.6 SS 1/4000
I want to say a big thank you to Artie and Daniel and the other mods for the wonderful opportunity to be a moderator on the best bird critique website! Go BPN!
I enjoyed being a moderator but felt it was time to let someone else be a moderator. Always good to change things up and a big welcome and thank you to Brian Sump for taking over the job!
I enjoyed my break away from social media this past month and return to BPN refreshed and ready to go!
PP-Small crop, slight adjustment to saturation and NR to BG. Otherwise pretty much straight out of the camera.
Comments and critiques always appreciated and learned from,
Gail

[Joseph Przybyla]

A contest winner, lovely image Gail. Thank you for sharing.

[John Mack]

Love that glow. Just can't beat it.

[William Dickson]

Lovely Gail....great title.....The rim light on the chick looks amazing...Great POV and the colours throughout are very nice...Just a thought....You probably tried this, but wondering if lifting the shadows on the chick would work...In any case it is very nice as is...

Good work

Will

[Arthur Morris]

Hey Gail, Good to see you back :). Don't you just love when a group of photographers shows up at the beach at 9am on a sunny day? Love this striking image, proof that dead-center can work even with horizontals at times.

much love a

[Bill Dix]

Just stunning. Glad to see you posting. Thanks for your service as a mod.

[Brian Sump]

Gail, thank you so much for serving the BPN community so well!

A real eye popper you got here. You crushed this rim lit shot. Kudos to you for breaking through the creativity barrier (not that all your shots are not already creative).

Beautiful transition of the sun into the frame and outstanding color. I too like the centered subject especially because the sun creates the asymmetry that our eyes sometimes desire.

A real treat, well done!

[Jonathan Ashton]

An unusual and most appealing image, well composed, love it!

[Wayne Niz]

Hey Gail

Rose amongst the thorns, what a pic, true art, thanks for sharing this great pic

[Paul Burdett]

A stunner Gail. Great to see you posting again. Hope all is well with you and yours. Cheers.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I love it Gail! I especially like the careful placement of the incoming light in upper left corner. To add on to artie's comment, I don't know how many times I've seen photographers arrive to start their day a few hours past sunrise on a sunny day only to ask me "Is there anything good to photograph?" to which I reply "There was, but you missed it a while ago".

Thank you for your time as moderator Gail, it was very much appreciated, and thank you also for sticking around

[Gabriela Plesea]

Beautiful colours and composition works well, the rim light makes the image for me - such an attractive frame, congratulations Gail