The Crab Plover

[Kiran Poonacha]

My First of this shy beauty

Spec: 1/1600, F 7.1, ISO 400

Canon 40D + 500mm+ 1.4TC + tripod

[Harshad Barve]

Excellent image on all counts Kiranbhai , lovely raised foot , whites looks so good and ripples in water are good
TFS

[RAM MALLYA]

Superb DOF kiran bhai

[Dr.Pranay Rao Juvvadi]

Difficult species to expose, you have done very well. I like the low angle, the raised foot and the species.

[Nate Chappell]

Great exposure and detail, love the raised foot, I'd love to see this bird. TFS

[Stu Bowie]

Thats a fair sized beak Kiranbhai. Good sharpness and exposure, and the raised foot adds to the image.

[Jory Griesman]

Agree with above comments. Only thing to add is that, on my monitor, I am not seeing detail in the blacks. Is this apparent for anybody else?

[allanrube]

Agree with all the positive comments. I would try a little bit shadow/highlghts and maybe even lighten it.

[Bill Dix]

What a beautiful bird - a new one to me. Love the raised foot and moving water. Detail in the whites looks great. Comp and HA lovely. Only nit is abovementioned lack of detail in the blacks, but a beautiful image.

[Jim Crosswell]

Beautiful image Kiran! I like the raised foot and sharpness in this one.

[Sid Garige]

Excellent image Kiran. Very nice details and comp.

[arash_hazeghi]

Very beautiful Kiran, love the details perfect low angle too.

[Manjesh Lingamurthy]

Hi Kiran

This is awesome.

Manjesh

[Grace Scalzo]

Kiran, thank you for sharing this lovely image of a bird that I have never seen. Love the raised foot. Your exposure looks good. I would like to see a bit more detail in the blacks, but I am guessing that the lack thereof might be result of jpeg compression? Are these birds endangered?

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Kiran, I have never seen this bird. Thx for sharing. Beautiful light and natural contrast. loved the pose.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Thank you all for your kind words and valuable suggestions,

As a few of the members mentioned above, agree that the black has lost some details in compression will rework.

@ Grace: there are not endangered but are sure rare, there are only nine known nesting sites of these beauties in the world. also a very special thing about them is that they are the sole representative of the family Dromadeidae (single in the species).

[Grace Scalzo]

Thanks, Kiran. Quite a special photograph indeed.