Marbled Godwit

[Clemens Vanderwerf]

This image was created in the afternoon at La Jolla Shore beaches in San Diego, were the brown golden cliffs provide a great "golden" reflection on the beach.

This image was created with the Canon 800mm f/5.6L IS lens, and the EOS-1DMIV. ISO 640. Evaluative metering: 1/1250 sec. at f/8 set manually.

All comments are welcome.

Thanks for looking.

[Sid Garige]

Fantastic background and wonderful composition. A piece of Art Clemens.

[Loong-Tat Wong]

Love the composition and the light! The golden BG is a great bonus!

[Kerry Perkins]

Excellent work Clemens! Gorgeous golden color for the bg (courtesy of the Golden State). Nice detail on the bird and lovely composition.

[Randy Stout]

Clemens:

Lovely water, soft light,good angle for the reflection.

My first thought was to crop up from the bottom some since the reflection isn't that strong, but with the bill touching the water and the reflection angling down from it, I think you made the right choice to leave the reflection in.

I like the space.

Cheers

Randy

[allanrube]

I Liked reading these comments, especially Randy's which showed his thinking on reflection in or out.

Very nice Clemens for the reasons given.

[Robert Holguin]

Excellent pic. Love the light and the effect that you got off the mountains. Great composition and wonderful pose. Well done.

[Jeff Dyck]

Gorgeous light Clemens - I like this a lot. Is that a prey item of some kind in his bill? (or just a chunck of mud?)

[Stu Bowie]

I like the soft light, and the surrounding cliffs certainly do add colour to the water BG. Good to see the slightly raised foot. Although most like the reflection in, I can see a comp without it, and still work well.

[Tom Rambaut]

Agree with some of the above comments. Great light.

About the reflection...Hmm not sure on this. TFS

[arash_hazeghi]

very nice and love the golden colors