Least Sandpiper-Middle America

[ChasMcRae]

This little bird feeding along shore of man made lake in Wichita NWR,Ok. along with Killdeer and Greater Yellowlegs in Fall. Early morning.

Chas.

amera Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark II
Camera serial number: 0000241625
Firmware: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows
Owner: Chas. Mc Rae
Date/Time: 2008:11:08 091:33
Copyright: Copyrighted
Shutter speed: 1/1000 sec
Aperture: 8
Exposure mode: Manual
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Multi-segment
ISO: 640
Lens: 600mm
Focal length: 840mm
Image size: 800 x 685
Rotation: none
White balance: Auto
Color space: AdobeRG

[Tony Whitehead]

Lovely light and pose. Looks as though a bit of CCW rotation is needed and I may clean some of the dark BG areas and crop from the top.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the warm light, eye contact and pose and agree with Tony's suggestions. I don't know if a lower angle would have been possible. It would have helped with the BG.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Tony stole the words out of my mouth.. Excellent "perch" this guy chose to use. You could crop at least half the empty space above out.

[ChasMcRae]

Thanks for comments. It seems I never crop enough. Also I was sitting with tripod low but not flush on ground. I could have cropped more and then less problem with dark "floaters" as I look at it now. I did clean up a lot of floaters.

Chas.