Black-bellied Plover

[denise ippolito]

Canon 1D Mark III
500mm +1.4ex
ISO 640
1/500 sec. at f/8
Tripod
Barnegat Jetty, a couple of months ago
I liked the little bit of seaweed on it's bill and the way it looked like it was on the edge of the rocks.

[Peter Farrell]

Beautiful Denise. The rock perches, from images I have seen, are really nice at that Jetty.
The bird looks great and I rally like the tone of the BG water. Did you do anything to the water in PP?
Peter

[denise ippolito]

Peter, I didn't do anything to the water in post processing. I imagine there was plenty of white water in the background.

[Randy Stout]

Denise:

The soft illumination helped give nice even lighting on the bird. I like the perch, gives a real sense of the place. Well exposed, good HA.

Cheers

Randy

[Stu Bowie]

Lovely soft light Denise, and I do like how he is perched on the edge of the rock. The seaweed on the rock adds interest. Lots of space to look into.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Denise, really nice perch, soft light and details. Well composed as well. TFS.

[Clemens Vanderwerf]

Great image Denise. The green seaweed makes the image for me, and gives it "color"!

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Excellent, like the perch and seaweed. The soft light adds nicely to the image TFS

[Myer Bornstein]

excellent image as usual

[denise ippolito]

Thanks guys, I appreciate the kind comments.

[Arthur Morris]

Nice bird, nice light, nice image design, and nice water.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the perch, pose and detail in this beautiful image. Well done Denise!

[Harshad Barve]

Excellent image Denise
TFS

[Dave Leroy]

Very nice feel to this one Denise.

Nice composition and I really like the pose.

Dave

[Neil Nourse]

Very nice Denise.
I like how he is perched out on the end of the rock.
TFS
Neil

[denise ippolito]

Thanks guys, I appreciate it.

[James Salywoda]

A beauty Denise I really like your composition as it is perfectly captured. The color palette in this image is excellent as it really goes well with this Plovers plumage. Well Done