Good Hair Day

[Fabs Forns]

This beautiful male must be a Poppa, because the blue on his eye is gone. He still has the gold locks that tells us he is in mating plumage, but the color disappears when the are nesting, no need to look good anymore ;) The plumage takes longer to go away.
Anhinga Trail, Sunday afternoon. On close focus, I closed the aperture from f/5.6 anticipating a frontal look. 95% of frame.

Date: 3/22/09
Time: 4:24:02 PM
Model: NIKON D300
Firmware: Ver.1.00
Frame #: 3820
Lens (mm): 500
ISO: 640
Aperture: 8
Shutter: 1/250
Exp. Comp.: 0.0
Flash Comp.: +0.0
Program: Manual
Focus Mode: AF-C
White Bal.: AUTO
ICC Profile: sRGB Profile

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Cool pose, great exposure control, details, BG and composition. Very minor suggestion would be to remove the little white spots on neck and back.

[denise ippolito]

Fabs, I love the pose and the colors are great-It's hard to get these guys to look good-yet you always manage to.

[Alfred Forns]

Does look proud !!! Love the neck angle and defiant look !!!

[Grady Weed]

I do have to say the twisted neck and the direct eye contact work well here. Where both eyes are visible, it adds a lot to the image. Defiant look is a plus. A suggestion is to brighten up the image. The light looks a bit flat to me. Overall it is a keeper.

[Alexander Koenders]

verry well done Fabs. I love the haircut.

[Beth Goffe]

Fabs, this is so cool! I love the sinuousness of the neck and his expression. The background is beautiful, too.

[Kobus Tollig]

Great pose exposure and comp. Really works well. Great shot

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

Terrific pose and beautiful blacks Fabs. It could be always hard to decide where to cut a bird in the frame like the Anhinga. :) This image shows well.

Szimi

[Ramon M. Casares]

Pose is perfect IMO, great light and exposure control, lovely BG and great detail. Congratulaitons Fabs!