Lesser Scaup Down-the-Barrel.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Waterfowl is fun this time of year! This one seemed less than impressed with me lying along the wet grassy shoreline at a local pond. Normally quite skittish over here, but do respond to audio such as what happened here. This must be done first thing in the morning as they will simply stay in the middle of the pond, too far away, when other folks start showing up. Nice to be a morning person!

Canon R6 + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/1000s., f/5.6, ISO 3200, natural light, handheld, FF after a small .25 degree CW rotation.

[Mike Poole]

Lovely Dan - as pretty much always the ultra low perspective works and having some variation in the background is nice. I'm glad you left him slightly off centre, adds to the composition

Mike

[kevin Hice]

Nicely done Dan love the stare down. Little bit of wake helps overall. Yes it is good to be that morning person. TFS

[Joseph Przybyla]

Crawling on the ground again, Dan... lovely low POV. All top shelf, thank you for sharing.

[William Dickson]

Perfecto again.....Great stare and the BG colours are awesome....Well done Dan.....

Will

[Arthur Morris]

The wet head lives! What a head shape. Love the low perspective of course.

with love, artie

[Dorian Anderson]

Beautiful angle and view! I think the lanscape canvas works well even with a mostly-vertical subject. Noise handled perfectly. I've never lived in the summer range of ducks and hence have not been party to taping them!

[Kurt Bowman]

Love the low POV and that BG is killer!

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Daniel ... simply a great frame .
Love the facial expression and glad you shot at the right angle , to get him head on .

Nice work and TFS Andreas

[Volkan Akgul]

Congratulations.
Dan