Wood Duck

[James Salywoda]

Wood Duck
Southern, California

Wood Ducks are one of the many duck species that can be found here locally as this is one of the most colorful of
the wintering species.:)

Nikon D300 AFS 600 F4
1/600 F6.3 ISO 400

Thanks For Looking

Jim

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Well composed with beautiful lighting and detail. Love the silky smooth BG and low angle James. Fine work !!

[Ben Egbert]

I love this species, one of the most beautiful of ducks. Your image is perfect to my eyes. HA, backgnd, exposure and sharpness.

[denise ippolito]

James, You are so lucky to get to shoot the wood ducks and the mandarin ducks. They are so colorful and beautiful. You did a great job as always capturing them. Very nice composition and details. I love the pewter colored water.

[Michael Zajac]

Beautiful details and composition. I like the low angle. Fantastic image.

[Danny J Brown]

Nice catch, James. There must be nine colors on the wood duck and you brought them out nicely without overdoing it. Another great low angle shot as well. I'm with Denise on the water - beautiful.

[Bill Dix]

You've managed to get the full range of colors in this handsome fellow, not to mention the great low angle and eye contact. Very nicely done.

[arash_hazeghi]

Love the sharpness and colors of this one, angles are perfect very well done. TFS

[Kurt Bowman]

Another very nice duck photo James. Great job with the colors and I like the angle and positioning.

[Krijn Trimbos]

Great detail here! Love the eye contact, colours and especially the eye contact. Would again (just like with your manderin duck shot) recommend taking some of the top. Lovely shot James!

[Nate Chappell]

Gorgeous lighting and detail James, maybe just a touch of cw rotation?

[James Salywoda]

Gorgeous lighting and detail James, maybe just a touch of cw rotation?

Thanks for comments everyone..... You could be right Nate it might be a touch off :D

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey James.
One of my favorite ducks! Sweet light and pose.....you really got the nice detail in the head too!

[Matt Vosniak]

Super image James. The colors you were able to capture in the feathers of the head look awesome. These jucks are so cool depending on the light you can get a whole different color palate.

[Harshad Barve]

this is so good james , lovely species , great techs as usual
TFS

[Kiran Poonacha]

Wow, james, really want to make a Image of this beauty, nice exhibited here.. congrats..

[RakeshDhareshwar]

Absolute stunner . Would not change a thing !!

[david cramer]

I'd agree with a very slight cw rotation. But even without that change it's a great image.