Least Tern

[Grace Scalzo]

Going through some images from past years this evening. Don't know why I never processed this one. Aside from cropping for my desired composition, and slight processing tweaks including taking the blue out of the shadow, this is as captured. It is nice when birds choose a clean part of the beach to hang out.

Thank you for looking and for your comments.

1/2500, f 5.6, ISO400
Canon Mk4, 500 f4 + 1.4tc + ground pod

[Randy Stout]

Grace:

Elegant, clean, nice angle, like the included vegetation, sharp, beautifully exposed !

Fun to find little treasures in the files

Cheers

Randy

[Melissa Groo]

What a clean and crisp image, Grace. Love the comp, the clarity. What a beautiful bill. Like the grains of sand kicked up and the OOF grasses. Really a lovely capture.

[Arthur Morris]

Perfect in every way: pose, exposure, head angle, and a nice clean setting. I too loved the kicked up sand grains. This bird has one long bill! Also, beautiful light.

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent love the exposure and low angle

[Marina Scarr]

A real stunner in all respects, Grace, and I like the vegetation on the left.

[Ofer Levy]

Simple but lovely! Sharp with excellent detail and exposure, awesome eye contact and low angle.

[Luis Villablanca]

Beautiful image. Love the composition, lighting, exposure and low angle.

[Pieter de Waal]

As mentioned lovely image, light and super low angle. Vegetation and sand grains add so much.

[Grace Scalzo]

Thanks everyone. I liked this one too and really love photographing least terns.