Elegant Tern "Scouring the Waters Edge"

[James Salywoda]

Elegant Tern
SoCal.

As these Terns are really amazing birds to watch and very acrobatic flyers. I liked the animated pose captured
by this bird as it was hunting for fish.

Nikon D300 AFS600 F4
1/1250 F6.3 ISO 400

Thanks For Looking

Jim

[Daniel Cadieux]

Great comp, pose, colours. I like the depicted habitat. Good job with the exposure, and nice deatils on the near wing. You may want to enhance the existing reflection in the eye just to make it a bit more "alive".

[Ramon M. Casares]

Simply outstanding! Pose is superb, expposure, BG, colors, detail, and shapeness as well as comp, all A+ and again, I loved the BG. Agree with Daniel about the eye.
Congratulaitons!

[Chris Kotze]

Excellent pose and colours. Well exposed and lovely light. Ditto the eye, It's always difficult to get the eyes clear on these birds

[Connie Mier]

Very nice, I like the bg, makes an eyecatching composition.

[David Fletcher]

Just drop dead gorgeous Jim. Masterful! Even the tiny water drops add. As suggested, would try and brighten up the eye catchlight. Top drawer!

[Kiran Poonacha]

beautiful exposure, pose is great and the off grass makes the compo work..congrats

[Gal Shon]

Amazing BG and a gorgeous image
Pose, exposure, sharpness are all excellent.
The only drewback is the eye.

[Harshad Barve]

Excellent pose and colours
What an image this is , agreed on eyes
TFS
Harshad

[Raymond Barlow]

always a treat to see a James bif, well done buddy!

[Ilija Dukovski]

Very nice pose, excellent exposure at strong light, the BG patches
actually are balanced. Strong action shot. I like it!

[Stu Bowie]

Stunning light, and in turn, well exposed. I like the pose, and overall, nice and sharp.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Excellent pose James. Love the BG too, water drops add to it for sure. Thanks for sharing. :)

[Mark Dumbleton]

Like the vertical crop to this image James. Would love to see more of the eye with a catchlight.
Well done!

[Simon Bennett]

I like the flying action and water drops.

[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

Very nice lighrt, love the wing, the creamy bg and the opened mouth, I can see its tounge

[Ryan Lambert]

Ditto the eye, but what a super image, excellent pose, well exposed and super com...congrats

[Doug Brown]

Well done Jim!