Ring-billed Gull.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I do have more Florida images to process share, but this is a "back to reality" image - recently taken at Petrie Island (along the Ottawa River) in the cold and snow. The Ring-billed Gulls are back, and they are looking quite prime and fresh in their breeding plumage of pure white feathers and blood-red eye-rings. Still quite the gluttonous ones, and easily attracted with morsels of food...

Canon 30D + 100-400L @300mm, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/2500s., f/8, ISO 400 (settings histogram checked), natural light, handheld, almost full-frame with canvas added top and left.

[Randy Stout]

Daniel:

Excellent exposure here, really like the pose,sharp. He seems quite intent on finding the morsels you mentioned,

Like how the wings work the diagonals

Randy

[Neil Nourse]

I know it's here somewhere

Nice shot Daniel. Exposure was right on. Lots of definition in the the bird and snow.

TFS Neil

[Mikko Viljamaa]

I like the fact that you have no bluish cast on this snowy photo, well done Daniel. And I get a feeling that the Gull understands this also and is therefore bowing in front of you...

Mikko

[RAM MALLYA]

Amazing exposure with such a difficult situation (all whites)

[RakeshDhareshwar]

What an exposure !!! Awesome frame here !!

[Pieter de Waal]

Beautiful exposure and love the pose. Nice comp with a lot of detail in the whites.

[DanWalters]

Really like the white on white and the outstretched wings.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Lovely wing position and textures...Exp looks good...I would like to have seen a lower angle...But im sure if you wanted that you would have done it!

[Stu Bowie]

Dan, excellent pose with the outstretched wings, and you have certainly nailed the exposure here. Love the whites, sharp, and I actually like this lots. Well done.