Read my beak, more snails

[Layton E Parham]

Female Snail Kite feeding.
Kissimmie, Florida
Canon EOS-1D Mark III, Hand held 500F4L, 1.4 Tele,@5.6,ISO400, 1/2000 Sec. Manual Mode, www.laytonparhamphoto.com

[Jim Poor]

Nice BG and really sharp face with the remnants of the meal. I'd prefer a little less of a rear view.

[Arthur Morris]

Sharp, good EXP, great head turn, bummer on the BKGR demarcation lines...

later and love, artie

[Robert Amoruso]

Body posture is OK with me and you got a good head angle. The BG could be improved by going higher or lower to get a uniform color if that was possible.

Nice work Layton. Handheld? You definitely could have raised or lowered your position.

[Layton E Parham]

I was in Neiger's boat and he was moving right to left when I shot this. Is this better?

[Ed Cordes]

Very nice sharp image. I do like #2 better due to the smoother BG.

[Lana Hays]

Layton
You did an excellent job with smoothing out those lines in the BG.......makes a big difference. I especially like this one as it's the female.....and I've seen very few images of a female. I like the pose and remnants of the snail on the beak......adds considerably more to the story. Well done.

[James Salywoda]

The repost is much better I like the pose with the bits of snail still in her beak.Nice job cleaning up the background it was well worth the effort and it made this excellent image much better.

[Arthur Morris]

I like the repost better however the medium green above/light below BKGR rarely works... If you are not sitting or on your knees for this one, you should have been.

later and love, artie

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

I really like the repost!

[Alfred Forns]

Repost looks much better !!!! Best solution would have been the lower angle to line up the best possible bg !!! Excellent Layton !!!!