Pelican

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I had never seen a Pelican try this before. This fellow was landing in water, touched down and immediately took off at the sight of a fish. A couple of hops and it took a jab, flew and landed some distance ahead. In the previous image, its beak was about to touch water like a skimmer.

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Canon EOs 1D Mark II, Canon EF 400mm f2.8 L IS USM, EF 1.4xII, ISO 400, f7.1, 1/2000, EV: -1/3, Aperture priority, 45 point AF. Look forward to your comments.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Pose and captured moment are great. I would blur the BG, tone down the highlights more and crop some off the bottom.

[Fabs Forns]

Nice moment of action. Agree on toning down the image a bit and I'd crop off the back and bottom. BG is fine with me.