Hooded Merganser

[Layton E Parham]

Found a small group of Mergansers in a Melbourne, Fl pond. Cloudy Day. Canon Eos 1D Mark IV, Eos 500mm F4l IS, 1.4 tele, Iso 800, F5.6, 1/1250 sec, -1 2/3 stops, Manual Mode

[Brendan Dozier]

What a great looking Merganser, real sharp image. Nice contrast. The concentric ripples add a great effect. If it were mine, I may try to crop out some of the ripple to help highlight the bird more.

[Mike Milicia]

Love the ripples!
Would like to see bird a bit more to the left in the frame.
Looks like it could use some CW rotation.

[denise ippolito]

Layton, I like the grey colored water and the pose. I agree it might need a rotation. I would tighen up the comp. if this isn't a big crop.

[CliveTonge]

Hi Layton,
great shot with the ripples.
I think that I would crop the top down to the first or second ripple. It isn't very rippley .. ripped .. rippled (?) there, and doen't add to much to the photgraph.

Thanks for sharing,
Clive