I like the muddy feet, attractive bird.
The head could stand just a bit more sharpening on my monitor.
The background/foreground keeps me looking around, trying to figure out what made the various indentations.
If possible, a lower shooting angle would be more intimate.
Randy has covered all the big points for me. A lower angle and a it sharper would be nice. Light angle isn't ideal but the diffusion brings enough detail into the shaded areas. A little fill flash may have been worth considering. The soft plumages textures are lovely.
landscape is mud flat alongside Mangrove Swamp, at low tide there are many creatures moving around, and weird mangrove roots. I was told its one of the richest eco systems possible.
Unfortunately its also pretty much impossible to get down to ground level, though in hindsight I should have laid down on the walkway which runs out to the river, over the mud banks.
Rich
Last edited by Richard Unsworth; 08-12-2010 at 02:45 PM.
Good looking bird. Good advice given; lower angle would certainly have been better but not always possible. What I particularly like here is the fact that you've shown the stone and the hole he just removed it from - thus his name, of course.
Ruddy Turnstone
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