Flight of the Oystercatcher #2

[Roman Kurywczak]

This was taken at Nickerson beach on Saturday. I was concentrating on these guys as they were busy clamming. Once they got one.......they usually took off.......and most of the time away from me.....this one took a good angle towards me. The next frame I have a gull trying to grab a free meal (he was unsuccesful).
Mark 3 with the Sigma 300-800mm lens at 800mm an ISO 800 at f5.6 and 1/2000th of a sec. Tripod mounted with Wimberly head. Cropped from horizontal to a vert. for composition.
As always comments welcomed and appreciated.
PS No hue or saturation used at all........beak is that color.

[Fabs Forns]

You hit the jackpot on this one, excellent feather detail, pretty good exposure (a few hot pixels on the right wing) and that shell is killer :)

[Pramod Viswanath]

This is fantastic! Amazing details and agree with Fabs about the shell! Awesome!

[Doug Brown]

Really nice Roman! Great eye contact, wing position, and of course the shell! Congrats!

[Daniel Cadieux]

I'm wondering if the beach is naturally sloped like this? Love the image, but you should clean up that spot between the feet! :-)

[Roman Kurywczak]

I'm wondering if the beach is naturally sloped like this? Love the image, but you should clean up that spot between the feet! :-)

Hi Daniel,
It is a very spotted beach naturally........but i did miss the one between the legs.........thanks. I am bringing my Mark 3 in for the firmware upgrade and cleaning.......figure they owe me that one!

[Johannes Glännman]

This is fantastic....

Thank you for sharing..

Cheers // Johannes

[Loukie Viljoen]

Roman you can have another beer on this, very good.

[Julie Kenward]

Very nice!!! I'm sorry...did that stat say f5.6???:eek: Roman, are you feeling okay???:D

What a beautiful image. I wish the wave breaking were just below his foot line but this is really lovely.

[Nicki Gwynn Jones]

Spectacular!

[Juan Aragonés]

Outstandig capture and very good light. Too bad that the bird was not in perfect plumage conditions because this excelent image deserves a perfect bird. Would love to have this one on my files Roman

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like it a lot! Great moment captured, nice light, wing position, details and the clam puts it over the top for me.

[Steve Canuel]

Hi Roman,
Nice angle, wing position, and pose on that bird and perfect head angle from that clam! I really like the glowing light of this one too. Don't forget that spot between the feet.
Steve

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

As I am a I welcome all the images of them :D
Great take off pose. The shell is an extra.

Szimi

[Raymond Barlow]

fantastic image Roman, wow.