Wood duck

[gary rouleau]

Albuquerque, New Mexico .

Canon EOS-1D Mark II N
Canon Lens 600mm f4
ISO: 640
Aperture: 4
Shutter: 1/1600
Exp. Comp.: 0.0

[Taylor Yeager]

Beautiful bird Gary. I wouldnt mind having some space for the bird to "fly" into or see some water below the bird.

Taylor

[Sid Garige]

Nice pose and sharp body. Background is kind of noisy and with twigs little distracting.

[Lance Warley]

I love this photo. The bird looks 3D, like it's flying right off the screen. Tremendous capture.

Some day, I hope to have one from my camera of this georgeous creature.

[Phil Colla]

Very nice. I particularly like the sharpness of the face and the presence of the drops of water, they are important. I would add, as they others have said, some room on the left. Well done...

[Maxis Gamez]

Nice pose and sharp body. Background is kind of noisy and with twigs little distracting.

Ditto!! You nailed it Sid.

[Jim Poor]

You don't see these in flight much, so that alone makes it a great image in my eyes.

More room on the lower left would be good and I'd try to find a way to lessen the impact of the BG some. I'm surprised it is as intrusive as it is at f4.

[gary rouleau]

Thanks everyone. Jim, that makes two of us. The distance to the trees easily had to be ten or more feet.
Cheers
gary