Winter Theme: Here I come!

[noelle zaleski]

Trumpeter Swan
Image taken in Michigan last January. It was freezing! but worth it

MKIII
1/2500
F9
ISO 320
560mm

[Levina de Ruijter]

What a wonderful image. I love it! Great moment to press the shutter. The whites look really nice to me and I like the composition. Maybe I would remove those single specks between the bird and the lower edge of the frame? I feel the image would be better without them as I find them a bit distracting. You could even consider removing the white bits in the background as well to make it a very clean image that really puts the bird as the only point of attention. Just a suggestion of course.

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Great moment and scene. The snow looks a bit gray. Can you push the whites further without blowing them in the swan? JR

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Lovely image, like the great action and perfect landing pose TFS

[Randy Stout]

Noelle:

Great timing, like the front wing back more to allow better view of head and neck.
the light was obviously pretty bright based on the shadow, yet didn't blow the whites, good job.

Cheers

Randy

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

WOW...stunning. loved the angle here and the blown snow at the feet. Great whites on the bird.

[Nicki Gwynn Jones]

Noelle, great job on the whites and I love the timing of this shot - great work!

[Pieter de Waal]

Great timing Noelle, as mentioned allready good exposure in the whites. Love the action captured and the snow "spray" under the tail just tops the action captured.

[LeeFortier]

Nice timing. Obviously you saw him coming in as this could easily have been missed.
IMHO the exposure of the feathers is perfect. The snow could be lightened a tad with a bit of post processing but I don't think it's really that far off.
Nice work.

[Jason Hurst]

Awesome capture, Noelle!

With the little "streak" of snow in front of the swan, it almost looks as if the swan is being blown backward by a gust of wind.