So tiny

[Grace Scalzo]

From our town beach on the 17th. A pair of plovers has hatched four chicks and as of yesterday, reports are that they are all still alive. This opportunity unfolded in a flash and I squeezed off four shots before the chick crested the rocky edge and I lost the Long Island Sound for my background. Cropped to a pano and did a small amount of beach clean up as there were a few stray pieces of fragmite remnants that detracted. As luck would have it, I saw this unfold as I walked down the beach, plunked down my tripod which was at the exact right height. No time to adjust it. How often does that happen?

1/1600, 5.6, ISO400
Canon mk4, 500 fr + 1.4tc + tripod

[Danny J Brown]

Grace - This is the kind of shot that makes me linger at a gallery showing. Beautiful work and wonderful comp. A sweet little puff ball.

DB

[Randy Stout]

Grace:

Nicely captured. Luck favors the prepared.

I particularly like the blue background here, because it shows off the fuzz well. Sometimes that gets lost if the background is beach.

Cheers

Randy

[Grace Scalzo]

Thank you, Danny. I appreciate your kind words. I was given this opportunity, a true gift from Mother Nature.

[Grace Scalzo]

Thank you, too Randy.

[Jim Fenton]

Love it with the blue background Grace :)

[sandy richards]

Grace, this could not be more perfect.
Just exceptional!!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Cool crop idea, the setting complements the little guy really well. I also like the angle.

[Joe Senzatimore]

Another wonderful image Grace.

[Arthur Morris]

Love, love, love it. Was the BKGR a storm cloud? The tall triangular rock and the others around it balance the chick perfectly. The only thing that bugs me is the round stone behind the front leg.

[Harshad Barve]

Holy cow , such a sweet image this is Grace

Grace - This is the kind of shot that makes me linger at a gallery showing.

+1 here ,

TFS

[Craig Brelsford]

I love the simplicity of the image: blue background, pebbles, and chick. Great angle too.

[denise ippolito]

Grace, So cute and tiny. Your image conveys that well. I love the blue BG and the rocks. Nicely done.

[Stu Bowie]

Super comp and angle, and I like the overall exposure in this. Well captured Grace.

[Gen Benjamin]

Wonderful image Grace, I too love how the image conveys just how small this cutie is. I also agree that luck helps a lot but you need the skill & preperation to take advantage of luck as you did here.
Gen

[John Ippolito]

Grace, I love the image. Comp, details, great BG and The little one traversing the "rugged terrain". Beautiful.

[Danny J Brown]

2 pebbles high. Stunning image. Perseverance generates success.

Hey, I love that quote Peter. If you don't mind, I'm going to use that one once in awhile.

DB

[Danny J Brown]

Hi Danny,
I made 3 quotes :).

2 pebbles high: is my own. You are free to use it.
Stunning image: is also my own. You can use that on all of my images. :D
Perseverance generates success: is one of my credo's. Use it at will.

Peter

Thanks again! I wish I could come up with things like "2 pebbles high." Just kidding, but I do love that credo and I'm going to use it on some of the college students who work for me every summer.

Later - DB

[John Chardine]

This couldn't be more perfect in my opinion Grace. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this image. Of the many loveable aspects I am particularly taken with your decision to crop to a pano and give as much to the habitat as to the subject.

[Grace Scalzo]

Thanks to everyone for your most kind comments about this image. I am touched as they mean so much.

I'll keep you posted on the progress of the little ones.

BTW- Artie, those are just rocks on the beach, no storm clouds, and the LI sound in the Background.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Grace, this is awesome....really really awesome. Loved the pano crop and the comp. Perfect shooting angle and DOF work.

[Grace Scalzo]

Thanks, Kaustubh. Luck was in my favor that morning.