Beautiful, Lance. Really leaps off the screen. Lovely and sharp and detail holding up well for a substantial crop. Red of eye ring and beak really makes a good focal point and the head angle is great. I might lighten the small dark OOF areas. Well done.
Love the pose. Though the bird is angled slightly away from you, you waited for the perfect head angle. I just love this species. The blacks look a bit blocked and the image a bit too contrasty. The ground is the only place to be for shorebirds.
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I agree with Artie about the blacks. I like the simple composition a lot and the soft colored and OOF BG helps a loto to made the B/W bird to pop in the composition. Perfect eye contact and low angle. Well done
Beautiful 'simple' shorebird image with low angle and shallow depth of field giving way out of focus BG. Great alert position and angle on bird.
Is this not the Black-fronted Plover, Charadrius melanops?
You are correct, Melvin. I think this is an example of name drift - the lastest edition of Simpson and Day indicates it as Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis (Charadrius) melanops