Florida Brown Pelican

[James Shadle]

This is just a ol' Florida Brown Pelican.
I had the pleasure of hosting Jim"Kissimmee Jimmy"Neiger, Doug"Dr. Diesel"Brown, Walt"Better Beamer"Anderson and Arash"I finally have my PhD"Hazeghi.

Arash allowed me to use his D3s during the morning. Amazing camera.

We had a rare fog bank roll in, no problem. ISO 3200 to the rescue.

Nikon D3s
Sigma 300-800mm F5.6 @800mm
ISO 3200
Manually Exposed @ 1/2500 @ F8

[Stu Bowie]

James, I like the flying posture, especially the wing position of the far wing. Overall, the pelican is nice and sharp, with lots of detail. Your pelicans have so much more colour than our plain white ones. Thats a large piece of nesting material he's carrying.

[Krijn Trimbos]

Great shot James! Love the pose, HT and the tree the pelican is carrying. I believe, the fog helped with the lighting of the subject here, reducing the shadows. The contrast looks really nice, fine post processing! Well done!

[Greg Basco]

James, looks really nice. ISO 3200 sure looks great on the D3s.

Cheers,
Greg Basco

[Melissa Groo]

Wonderful shot, as usual, James. The 3200 ISO is truly impressive!

[Dumay de Boulle]

Nice clean image and nice and sharp and lovely to catch it with the building material...BG a little light for my taste..,but taking nothing away from the image at all...Nice one James

[arash_hazeghi]

Awesome James! glad you liked the camera it kicks Canon's a** when it comes to high ISO, just look at that gorgeous sharp detail at 3200! love the nesting material too.

Thanks for the tour, got some excellent photos (can't really miss with captain in charge) will post later.

[Doug Brown]

Thanks for a great morning of photography James! And welcome to the Avian mod team. Impressive high ISO performance. And a cool pose and branch.