Saddle Billed Stork with Blacksmiths Plover

[Ken Watkins]

Taken in Kwara Concession, Northern Okavango, Botswana, 28th June 2009

EOS 1D MkIII

500mm F4 IS hand held

F6.3, ISO 400, 1/2500, EV -1/3rd

This is a lot brighter in the original Tiff and JPEG I have given up trying to make it look bright on here after 6 attempts

[Marc Mol]

Looks pretty good to me Ken on my calibrated monitor. Nice comp, color and exposure on both birds.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Nice to have both the birds in focus.. loved the take of pose anf the bird looks great.. TFS

[Harshad Barve]

Such a beautiful bird this is and you have done great by keeping both in foucs
All in all I loved this image
TFS

Harshad

[Markus Jais]

Great shot. I like the wing pose of both birds. Great to have them both in focus.
The image looks fine on my monitor.

Markus

[David Fletcher]

Nice shot Ken. Neat you got both sharp with good flight poses. Looks fine on my monitor. TFS

[Ramon M. Casares]

I like both poses a lot, specially the lapwing's pose, it seems to need some CCW rotation and although light was a bit harsh you manage to get nice detail and exposure. Congratulations!

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Ken, the blacksmith plovers are now known as blacksmith lapwings. You have done well to capture both in focus, as there is a huge size difference, and wondering where your focus point locked onto. Great capture.

[James Galletto]

Wow great image of two cool birds.

[Doug Brown]

Great image of two cool birds! I would sharpen the head of the big bird and try to bring out the eye of the small bird.

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks for all of your kind comments, and thanks to the Blacksmiths Plover for harrying the Stork into flight.