On The Attack

[Jim Fenton]

Male Laughing Gull defending the gal he was attempting to mate with against all who got to close.

Nikon D300s, 600VR, TC14EII, ISO 640, F7.1, 1/4000, CW Metering, NearUniWB, 0.3 EV applied

[allanrube]

Nice capture Jim. The posture captures what i sharpening - exposure, composition good. If I had more room to the right I would include just a tiny bit more.

[Ilija Dukovski]

I like it very much, the pose and expression is great, the wings are captured really well here.
Nice clean beach and BG adds too.

[Dan Fleming]

The pose is really terrific here Jim. I love that he is airborne and the wing positions. I agree that moving the bird ever so slightly toward the center of the frame would be nice if you have the room.
Dan

[Tobias Hayashi]

Excellent shot! The behaviour makes the bird stand out very nicely from the muted setting. A great colour scheme as well. I feel that a little more room on the RHS would be nice, maybe take a teeeny bit from the left, but other than that, a fabulous shot capped off by some awesome behaviour :)

[Joe Senzatimore]

Some minor changes mentioned , but still one fine image. Great action captured. Spot on exposure as well.

[Randy Stout]

Jim:

Techs mentioned. Great pose/action, strong sense of what is happening.

I like that the bird is not cut in half by shore line.

Cheers

Randy

[Malcolm Benn]

lovely image, capturing the bird with it's beak open and still partially airborne really make the image .. I can almost hear the squawk

[denise ippolito]

Jim, Very nice action captured. I like the feet position and the open beak. Very nice details. I like your composition choice it looks good in the frame to me as presented.

[Dave Leroy]

I really like the timing on this shot with the out stretched feet, wings and head.

Composition looks very nice to me.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Beautiful image this, loved the moment captured and the angle works well...

[DanWalters]

Great action. Like how you included plenty of space in front of the bird.

[Trivedi Vatsal]

Amazing image!! I liked the timing here. The angle, pose & BG also looks very beautiful!!