Yellow-crowned Night Heron

[WIlliam Maroldo]

SonyA700~Sony70-400G/Sony1.4X@560mm~ISO500~1/800sec~F13~manual exposure~fill flash~Brazos Bend State Park, Texas~5-17-09
CS4 Topaz Clean2
I posted a Black-crowned with basically the same concept a little while ago. Anyway, comments and critique welcomed. regards~Bill

[denise ippolito]

Bill, I like this alot-beautiful HA and the de-saturated look is very pleasing. I wish the top feathers were not cut off. Very nice eye!!

[Alfred Forns]

... good subject for B&W :) Leaving the eye natural set its well !! Might consider moving the bird to the right since the head feathers are cut any way .. will take the eye out of the center of frame !! Excellent !!!

[Julie Kenward]

Agree with both suggestions - either scoot him over to the right a bit or bring back the rest of the feathers! Nice conversion and that pop of gold makes the image really special. I'd hate to run into that in the hallway in the middle of the night! :eek::D:eek: