Black-winged Stilt

[Rob Drummond]

Spent five hours in 40C (106F) in a pleasantly cooling mud bath but the only bird I got was stilts. Only my ineptitude prevented a few other species but there's always next time.

1d2n 500/f4 1.4x resting on bean bag on boogie board
ISO 400 f7.1 1/4000 exp comp -1/3 removed a couple of small blowm highlights on the leg

cheers
Rob

[Daniel Cadieux]

Oh my Rob, this is gorgeous!! Great low angle, and the walking stride complete with swooping water trail is fantastic. Great BG too. If you have more space at bottom that would be great to add back, and careful with the sharpening halos visible around the bill. Congrats on a very fine image!:)

[Harshad Barve]

Rob, This is spectacular image with great lighting , pose, BG , raised feet and water ,
TFS

[Danny J Brown]

Stunning shot, Rob - absolutely beautiful composition, color, light and subject. I love this one.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

That water following the nails is what caught my attention as soon as I saw the image! Lovely bird and light, exposure looks great. So nice mood in this one.

[Nevil Lazarus]

That is beautiful - well worth the mud bath -

[ChasMcRae]

Actually what I like about this image is the trailing foot with water cascading from it.
Rest of image is typical, but the foot action I love.

[Rod Warnock]

Plenty of moodiness, BG so supportive but the water from the foot action really tops it off. well done Rob!!
Best regards
Rod Warnock

[Mike Veltri]

Awesome, love the light and the low angle. The water trail from the foot is super.

[Ofer Levy]

Fantastic shot Rob! Awesome low angle, excellent techs and I just love the water drops.

[Bill Dix]

A beautiful image - lovely background, great pose including trailing drops, nicely composed and exposed. Halos noted (which could be removed); otherwise a very handsome shot indeed.

[Nagesh Mula]

Rob, this is simply gorgeous with a very good low angle and the water droplets from the leg gives a very good sense of motion. Congrats!!

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Rob, an exceptional image. That little trail of water is simply exquisite mate. So well done,!!! :)

[Kiran Poonacha]

just loved the water streak here, great pose, light, angle and details...