This Jacana was very active in the late afternoon sun, like the colors and pose of the bird. Comments pls.
Canon 1D Mk 4 - 100-400mm Canon lens - SS 1/1250 - F 8.0 - ISO 1600 - Exp. Bias +0.3
Craig, colors, comp., the lilly pads, pose...superb. I also like the water texture. Angle is a little too steep but it kinda works because of the lily pads. Whites dont show much detail though. Looks like they might have been blown a bit.
I like the composition and I think that the high angle of capture works due to the view of the pad it provides. The pose is also nice for the reasons Alan mentioned. The white appear a bit bright on my monitor. Might be worth reconverting to see if you could tone they down a little and bring in some detail. If you have it I would try a crop that included all of the pad that the bird is standing on.
I applied curves, to make the image pop but may have been a tad too aggressive resulting in loss of detail on the whites.
Will fix the whites and recompose to include the entire lily the Jacana is standing on