Great Blue - a chance meeting

[Terry Olmsted]

Walking along the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle, this guy was so close I almost missed him. I liked his comical expression.

11/17/2009 Canon 40D 400mm f5.6 ISO 500 1/3200s partial metering center focus one shot AF (Neat Image
filtered)

[arash_hazeghi]

Nice and colorful, love the BG and comp too. High contrast beak detail is great but low contrast feather detail in the neck and head area has been lost to NR.

[Brian Barcelos]

Completely agree with Arash's critique. BG is really impressive. Also could use some more sharpening around the eye.

[Terry Olmsted]

Thanks very much Arash and Brian for your critiques.