Wood Duck with fall color

[Matthew Studebaker]

Cuyahoga County, Ohio | October | Canon 40D | Canon 500mm f4 IS |
I love the last few minutes of light at the wood duck ponds when the fall colors are most vibrant.

[Raymond Barlow]

pretty spectacular image Matthew, this high angle works well with the reflection colours.

[Randy Stout]

Matthew:

Nice bird, liquid gold background. Nice point about the shooting angle for this type of image.
Sharp, well exposed, posed.

Cheers

Randy

[stuart wanuck]

just beautiful

[Daniel Cadieux]

Apart from seemingly needing an ever so slight CW rotation this is a darn fine image Matthew!! Needless to say, the water is as much a highlight as the Wood Duck :-)

[Lorant Voros]

Beautiful colors. I agree with the CW rotation; apart from that it simply stunning.

[Alan Carr]

Super image!

[Michael Hogan]

Great image - just imagine if the water was totally still - it would be would be unbeatable in any competition. I'm so jealous that we don't get those colours here - never mind getting the sun :-)

[Kiran Poonacha]

Just loved the over all setting and colours here.. TFS and Congrats...

[arash_hazeghi]

what a lovely BG and golden tones. Love the eye contact, wish to see this 1024 pixels wide

[David Fletcher]

This is super Matthew. :). Be good to see larger too. VWD!

[Dave Barnes]

This is one fine image, I must agree. Just love the colours captured

[Rick Dobson]

What a dreamy image. As mentioned the water may be stealing the show from this duck.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Holy cow!! what colors in the BG. superb image.

KD

[Morkel Erasmus]

nothing to add but that this is sublime!!!

[Adrian David]

Fantastic colors, great details and exposure! I love it!

[Arlon Motsch]

Beautiful. I've never even seen a live wood duck outside a zoo!

[Tony Whitehead]

Superb, Matthew. Nothing more to add to what has already been said. Must make a stunning large print. Great job

[Krijn Trimbos]

These kind of shots are becoming somewhat of a Studebaker trademark! Apart from the near perfect reflection and beautiful water rippels the colours make this one without a doubt! Techs (HA, EXP, body angle, sharpness) are excellent!

[Dr.Pranay Rao Juvvadi]

Spectacular is all that I can come up with!

[Nathan Beaulne]

Fantastic image of the Woody, love the superb light and HA and BG

[Mike Lentz]

Your Woodie series there in the fall are just killer!!!!!