I captured this image of a female Mallard duck at Lake Morton in Lakeland, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.
Nikon D500
Nikon 500mm PF, camera and lens supported by a Oben carbon fiber monopod with a Wimberly MonoGimbal head
1/2000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV +1.33 ISO 5000 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 500mm (750mm 35mm Equivalent)
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2022 and Topaz Denoise AI
Cropped slightly for composition and presentation
I'd crop in just a little tighter Joe, maybe to just below the blue speculum. This would lose the more OOF areas and with all the stripes and tones I think you'd have a really interesting and fascinating shot of what we all consider a pretty mundane everyday bird