The Preening Youngster

[Kiran Poonacha]

Found this Juv Black shouldered kite against the setting sun. He let me close but kept a constant eye contact with me watching my moves.

spec: 1/1000, F 7.1, -1/3, ISO 400

canon 40D + 500mm + 1.4TC

I first thought of cloning the OOF leafs but thought it adds with the cobweb around.

[Doug Brown]

Wonderful light, behavior, and detail. Nice perch; I wouldn't clone out anything. The BG looks a little posterized in places. Another great image Kiran! BTW, this type of behavior is called preening in English. :)

[Kiran Poonacha]

Thank Bhai, just got a bit mixed up with plants :D..... also had messed up the jpeg save option, I corrected it..

Regards,

Kiran

[Markus Jais]

Awesome shot of this beautiful raptor. I never got close to them in Spain.
I like the preening pose and the feathers. Wonderful light, colors and background.

Markus

[DanielTMiller]

Incredible details on him, love the eye and the perch.

[Morkel Erasmus]

love these guys and you got a great specimen in sweet light here Kiranbhai!
love the branches as is - top shot all round...

[arash_hazeghi]

Very beautiful Kiran, love the details, well done.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great capture of this behavior. Sharpness, angle and light look good, too. Adding to the other comments, I would tone down legs and try to get more details in the blacks at the tail.

[Ofer Levy]

Lovely image! Won't change a thing as all looks as it should be to me.

[Christian Dionne]

I love the warm color of this shot, everything is already said, just beautiful!

[Vinay Lakshman]

Sharpness , BG , perch & esp behaviour attracts all the attention . Top Image !!

[Danny Laredo]

Really sweet capture Kiran. Love the detail.