Whitefaced Duck

[Stu Bowie]

A whitefaced duck with a dirty face. Most times, the adults have dirty faces whilst the juvvies are pure white. The top half of the BG is a stone pitched wall. I liked the detail I captured in this. Taken at a birding spot in Pretoria last year. These ducks are completely wild and migrate here in our winter. Added canvas to the right for him to fly into.

Canon 50D
100-400 @ 400
1/3200
F/5.6
ISO 640

Exp Comp 0
Hand Held

[Justin Reznick]

Beautiful detail in the bird and wonderful action capture! Great placement in the comp, definitely like you added canvas. One small thing - the face does seem a tad too hot on my screen.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Really like the flight pose Stuart and the killer BG. Excellent detail and well composed with good eye contact. Well done !!!

[Dan Fleming]

Hi Stuart,

Boy, you've really stopped the action well here. The duck is very sharp and the background is beautiful. You have very nice light here and an excellent catchlight in the eye. You have added the canvas so that I cannot tell that you did. Well done lad!

Dan

[arash_hazeghi]

Excellent Stuart, love the wing position, sharpness and eye contact. Well done! nice BG too

[Fabs Forns]

You the Master of sideways flight, Stu, another beauty in great light, terrific wing pose and detail.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Cool wing position, good sharpness, eye contact and BG. I only wish the bird were angled toward you a bit.

[Stu Bowie]

Thank you all for the kind words and feedback. Much appreciated.

[Vida van der Walt]

Hi Stu. Another beautiful image by you. I love the warm light, excellent detail, great pose and the water drops a bonus.:)

[Kiran Poonacha]

loved the pose Bhai, nice light and BG too.. nicely done..

[Stu Bowie]

Vida, Kiranbhai, thank you both for your comments. Much appreciated.