Whimbrel Landing

[Nate Chappell]

Hi everyone,
Here's a Whimbrel landing on the Washington coast from last spring. Cropped for comp and I cloned out the tail feathers of another bird llc.
MkIII 500F4 1.4X 1/3200 F8, iso 640, Handheld

[Daniel Cadieux]

Very cool landing pose. Too bad the near wing wasn't more open than it is, but still not bad. I like the included landing base at bottom. As posted you could crop a bit from top just to strenghten the comp. One of the twigs in LLC is fading out mysteriouly into oblivion - perhaps because of some clone work from the tail elimination you did.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great details, eye contact, angle and BG. Another vote for a slight crop off the top.

[Nate Chappell]

Thanks guys, I agree with you about cropping a bit from the top, not sure why I didn't consider that.

[Raymond Barlow]

this one looks familier Nate! fantastic shot.

thanks for contributing to the .pps file.