Pelican

[Alfred Forns]

Pelican doing his heat stretch, neat birds from LaJoya !!

Comments welcome and much appreciated

Nikon D300
70-200 2.0 1.4X
f 5.6 1/800 sec
Av 0
ISO 500

[Harold Davis]

i wished we got birds that beautiful here!! cool head throw. looks great to me.

[Lance Peters]

Awesome!! - Gotta love it - Nailed it BIGTIME - IMHO :D

[Jamie Douglas]

Could the eye area and bill benefit from a little sharpening? Nicely framed.

[stuart wanuck]

take me with you to california next time nice capture

[Alfred Forns]

... will let you know when we go out there next !! Btw its fun shooting with very little expertise need for the sights. Artie has a guide that covers all !! This was taken while I was working an IPT !!

Not sure what is going on with the cliffs, I know they had a sign up so you could not get to the birds? Lots of other ares to shoot and each great !!!

Hi Jamie Sharpening looks good to me but if it were to be sharpened best to select the bird contract by a pixel or two then sharpen. Fastest way to get in trouble with a halo is sharpening .. other than shadow/highlight !!! Glad you brought it up and are looking closely !!! Neat !!!

[Troy Lim]

That is real nice, so vibrant.
Al, shooting with Nikon?

[Alfred Forns]

.. did for a year an a half when the D300 D3 came out Troy !!! :)

[Harshad Barve]

wow , what an image Alfred , excellent
TFS

ps , You must be missing your Nikon gear as I

[Dave Leroy]

Amazing pose Alfred and lots of detail.

I am not sure if there is a pp'n track along the edge of cliff on right side?

I wish I was that flexible.

[Dave Mills]

Hi Al, The unusual arching of the head makes this for me...never saw that behavior...

[arash_hazeghi]

way cool pose Al, love the details!

[Bill Dix]

Great pose! Makes the shot a winner. Some cloning artifacts visible along edge of pier, both sides of bird.