I captured this image along the north beach at Ft. Desoto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida. The tern is shaking and shimmying to dry it's wings. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing
Nikon D500
Nikon 500mm PF + Nikon 1.4 III Teleconverter, Handheld
1/4000 F/8 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 1800 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 700mm (1050mm 35mm Equivalent)
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2022 and Topaz Denoise AI
Cropped for composition and presentation
P.S. If I am wrong in the identification please correct me.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Interesting shot Joe - unusual but with the addition of the water droplets the lack of eye contact doesn't bother me as much as it might with a bland background. If you had it I would have liked a bit more water at the bottom of the frame, but it's different and all the better for it
I like the coming toward the viewer pose and the trailing water droplets. I personally wish for more eye contact, but understand you can't have everything. Nice work Joe