Legs

[Lance Peters]

OHH baby look at those long legs -LOL :)

D3
Nikon 200-400VR With 1.4X Converter
F7.1
1/640th
800 ISO
Manual exposure
Handheld

Cropped and sharpened a tad.

Comments welcome - Tall bird went with vertical crop - could maybe move him out of the middle a little.

[Ray Rozema]

Wow. I wish I could find someting to add. Compostion is great, love the texture of the "perch', obviously great hA and low angle. TFS

[Jeff Cashdollar]

Fantastic texture on the whites, wonderful use of soft light; perfect HA, perfect eye,...love it as presented. This is some of the best work I have seen you post. And you have posted some great work, this one is over the top!

Exposure techs are solid, I assume f/7 is a nice balance with TC and lens sweet-spot.

[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

Really like this portrait, love the sharpness, the color, the details, the exposure and the good environment show. Composition looks good to me too.

[kostas nianiopoulos]

verry good image Lance , i love the long legs of this guy .. he looks like a model .. i wonder how tall is that bird ...

[Gail Spitler]

Great eye! Absolutely terrific image. I'd vote for moving the bird off center just a bit more (maybe). Love the rock & seaweed - both texture and the fact that the blue-green is the perfect complementary color to the pink on the bird.
Definitely way better than just a keeper here, Lance.

Cheers
Gail

[Adams Serra]

Hi Lance,
I like it a lot, great legs and great eye. I agree with Gail about croping some off the right side to get the bird out off center.

[Alfred Forns]

Sweet one Lance That is one good looking bird !!!

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Great title Lance. Excellent exposure and details.

[Harold Davis]

one of the best stilt pictures i ever saw. perch is awesome and detail is great....as usual.:)

[Katherine Enns]

This is a gorgeous photograph, and a VERY cute bird. Might i ask what species? Its not a black-necked. ???

kat

[Richard Waas]

I love this image Lance..... Fantastic!!!!

[Lance Peters]

This is a gorgeous photograph, and a VERY cute bird. Might i ask what species? Its not a black-necked. ???

kat

Black Winged Stilt.

Thanks for the kind words everyone :)

[Katherine Enns]

Thanks Lance. I have to see one of these one day. Meanwhile I can admire your beautiful photograph. Something ELSE this site does is provide eye candy for desk-bound biologists.

kat

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Hey Lance
Fabulous image! I love everything here! :)