Brown Pelican -- Gotcha!

[wendell westfall]

D90 70-200VR@135 1/1600 f5.0 ISO1000 0EV handheld

Many of these big birds were diving, most successfully, for food this chilly and windy morning, putting on quite a show. The image is slightly cropped and tweaked in LR3. I attempted to clone out the black splotches (another pelican's shadow) in the upper left corner with unsatisfactory results, so I left it alone.

Wendell

[subramanya_ck]

If this image was taken at a much lower angle, would have become a total winner..

BR,
Subbu

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

The angle is what is hurting this. Exposure wise the bright areas of the head are a bit hot to my eyes (without even checking in Photoshop). :)