Eager to Learn Spotlight Image Dave Leroy for week ending 12/3/2010- Common Loon

[Roman Kurywczak]

Congratulations Dave Leroy for your image "Common Loon" being chosen as the Eager to Learn Spotlight image for the week ending 12/3/2010!!!

In winter plumage. I took this yesterday morning on an overcast day.

I was hunkered down beside some rocks so the loon could not see my profile. The loon knew something was up and as it passed by, it saw my profile.

It began to give its loon call. I guess to either tell me I should not have tricked a nice loon, or perhaps laughing at the joke. The loon stuck around for a while longer.

It is hard to do the moment and the loon justice .

50D, 500mm +1.4TE, 1/320, f8 IS400, manual mode.

I leveled and cropped for composition.

[Harshad Barve]

Congratulations Dave, super settings here

[denise ippolito]

Congratulations Dave, Well deserved!:)

[Indranil Sircar]

Congratulations Dave! Beautiful image and a well deserved one.

[Dave Leroy]

Thank you very much.

And thank you to Roman and all the other moderators that devote so much time and effort to make the forums work.

Dave

[Bill Dix]

Congratulations Dave. Well done!

[Aidan Briggs]

Congratulations Dave!!

[Nate Chappell]

Congrats Dave, great pose!

[Randy Stout]

Dave:

Really nice,excellent shooting angle,pose and comp

Cheers

Randy

[Dave Leroy]

Thanks a lot guys.

It was fun.

Dave

[Robert Amoruso]

Congrats. A well deserved win.