Fishing

[Tony House]

Kingfisher, waiting for the right moment...

Techs: 1/160 @ F10 EC -2/3 ISO 200
1DMK11N 500F4 1.4TC Tripod + Gimbal head

Thanks for looking.
Tony

[Ramon M. Casares]

Terrific! Love the pose and light, BG and colours, perch is very nice too! I might feel tempted to lighten the catchlight a bit. GREAT one!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the soft light, details and BG and might put the bird a tad higher in the frame. I like the idea of lightening the eye a bit.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

I really like the pose and the clean bg!

[Leroy Laverman]

Bringing up the eye catchlight and I think maybe the midtones and shadows some might be OK as well. I've not seen one of these in real life so I don't know the actual coloration in this species but in comparison to the branch is seems a little dark. (minor tweaking only here). The pose and detail you've captured is wonderful. This really shows off the colorful plumage well.

[Dave Mills]

Absolutely a beautiful image. I agree with the other comments and I would crop a bit from the top.

[Fabs Forns]

Beautifully done. I would have traded a bit of ISO and a bit of f/ top in exchange for more shutter speed, but like also as presented.

[Raymond Barlow]

one of my dream birds! very nice as presented, would suggest a bit more room.

[Jonathan Michael Ashton]

Absolutely brilliant! Great pose and exposure, I agree about putting just a little more light in the eye, but wow what a shot - congratulations

Jon

[Juan Aragonés]

Superb KF Tony, love the soft light, that fantastic texture of the plumage and the colours. Great pose too. I think that if you rework the eye´s area to add more light this image would be better. Congratulations for such a fine image!!

[Tony House]

Many thanks for the kind comments everyone...

Tony

[Art Kornienko]

Stunning Tony, the colours are so rich and the detail just wicked. I guess you had to be in a blind, these guys are just so hard to get near. Such nice work.