Curlew

[colincarter]

Curlew taken on the North Yorkshire Moors in the UK

Shot with Nikon D3, 500 F4 VR lens with 1.7x teleconverter
Shutter speed 1/800, Aperture f7.1, iso 560, exp comp -1/3ev, no flash.

thanks for looking

[Harshad Barve]

good striking pose, nice BG , spot on sharpneing
beautiful shot
TFS
Harshad

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Excellent image Colin! I love the sidelighting in this instance. It looks fab man! :) If you are OK with it or fussy like me, I'd suggest to touch up the sticking out feather on the breast. Not an issue really though, just a thought. Thanks for sharing. :)

[Raymond Barlow]

nice one Colin., I agree, and suggest you clean up the breast feather, and also the beak... but if you like things to be "it is was it is", that's cool too.

[David Fletcher]

Lovely shot Colin. Nice quality to it. Good lighting, pose and HA. Love the layers in the bg. Re a bit of tidying, don't mind as is, but an option as mentioned.

[Ramon M. Casares]

I like it a lot, my only suggestion would be not have the grass sharpened.
Congratulaitons.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Beautiful All said above.. loved the HA and crop.. congrats.. lovely Bird too..