About To Touch Down

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

This image of the Caspian Tern was taken from James boat . The Caspian terns were quite numerous and just beautiful to watch.

Nikon D300
Nikon 300 mm F 2.8
ISO 200
1/1000, F 7.1
manual

All comments are appreciated.

[Dave Blinder]

Judy - Great exposure and sharpness. I'm surprised 1/1000 was fast enough to freeze a Tern. Head seems slightly angled away.

[Joe Senzatimore]

Great stop action. Might tone down the white rocks a bit.

[Randy Stout]

Judy:

Nice timing, fine wing position. The HA looks pretty good to me.

I agree with Joe about toning down the rocks a bit. I might also remove the one dark stick pointing up beneath the birds wings, and consider a small crop, about 20% of the free space, down from the top. To my eye it helps work the diagonal a bit more. All the action is down towards the left, so I am thinking that the space above doesn't add too much. Purely personal taste.

Cheers

Randy

[Harshad Barve]

beautifulu done , lovely pose and BG
If mine I may tone down perch and crop a little bit from bottom
TFS

[Malcolm Benn]

Sweet shot and great timing .. love all the angles.

[Clement Francis]

Judy this is mindblowing timing. The stretched back wings clearly shows how the bird is out-breaking itself for the landing