Making waves

[Fabs Forns]

At Mzreck Ponds, Everglades National Park, a sunny evening. Female Northern Shoveler, funky bill under water :)

Date: 4/11/09
Time: 6:49:32 PM
Model: NIKON D300
Lens (mm): 850
ISO: 800 500/4 VR plus 1.7X
Aperture: 6.7
Shutter: 1/500
Exp. Comp.: 0.0
Flash Comp.: +0.0
Program: Manual
Focus Mode: AF-C
White Bal.: CLOUDY
ICC Profile: sRGB Profile

[Ramon M. Casares]

Lovely, nice atitude, light, colors and detail, comps is nice as well as the water wich looks great, I would only suggest to tone down the bright areas in the water just a tad.
Congratulations!

[David Hemmings]

Hi Fabs! Lovely water colors and a very unique pose make this a cool image. The composition works well. I would still like to see the beak and I would also tone down the whites in the water just a touch:)

[Randy Stout]

Fabs:

Very nice. The water color on this is yummy. I agree with Ramon and David about the bright areas.

I tweaked it a bit, and tried to bring in the same color in the bow wake as was in the tail wake.

May not be what you were after, but I thought it was an interesting variant.

Randy

[Fabs Forns]

Hmmmm, interesting repost, Randy, thanks!

Actually what I liked about this was the colors, the gold and the contrasting silver of the water.
Nothing written about taste, though :)

Thanks all for your comments!

[Stu Bowie]

Fabs, something different, and I like this. Amazing colours, and love the partially submerged head. Well done for posting OOTB.

[Tony Whitehead]

Superb colours and textures. I love the peeking eye.

[Randy Stout]

Fabs:

I have learned a lot from your posts, and for me one of the most important things is to try and look at images from a variety of ways, to be creative in color and composition. That was the motivation for my version :).

The original is mighty fine.

Cheers

Randy

[Mike Lentz]

Fantastic! I love the fact the the Spoonies beak is under water. The water colors are great, but the patterns in the water are what make this image special for me.

[Arthur Morris]

Double ditto all of the above. Love the ORIG and the re-post. Darkening the pupil will increase the apparent sharpness.

[Steve Maxson]

I love the uniqueness of this image, Fabs - with the behavior and water colors. I think I prefer the original post.