Wood Stork

[denise ippolito]

Canon 1D Mark III
800mm lens
1/2000 sec. at f/6.3
ISO 400
Manual mode
Tripod
Brandon Rookery in FL.
Thanks to Artie and James.

[Mike Tracy]

I like everything about the stork technical and aesthetic wise. I wish the foliage didn't meet the sky / wing where it does.

[Nancy A Elwood]

Denise this is one of the best woodstock images I have seen!! Great exposure and sharness, plus the twig. Well done!

[Bryan Erb]

Exposure looks good, really like the landing pose with nesting material.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Cool pose, good sharpness and nesting material and dangling feet add to it. I wish the blue area in the BG were not there. I might blur the BG some more, on the left side it looks as if there are some repetitive patterns.

[Troy Lim]

Denise, very nice exposure, and you show the darker part of the wings well.
I would try to clone the sky with the green in the back. :)

[Grace Scalzo]

I do not see a problem with the blue sky, it's part of their environment, and to me it adds to the feeling that he's coming home to his trees with the nesting material. Your exposure and the action captured is interesting. Only thing I would work on is the appearance of repetition in the Lower left corner as viewed.

[denise ippolito]

Thanks folks, Not sure how I missed those repeats. Appreciate it.:)

[James Salywoda]

Awesome! Nice incoming pose the nesting material is an added plus excellent detail as well.

[arash_hazeghi]

very nice Denise, like this one a lot!

[Harshad Barve]

excellent image Denise , lovely pose and nesting material adds much here
TFS

[denise ippolito]

Jim, Arash and Harshad, Thank you all for your kind comments.:)