Black-tailed Godwit

[Mital Patel]

Black-tailed Godwit - Almost Breeding Aquired
(Limosa limosa)
Gujarat, INDIA


March 19, 2011, 8-23am
1D MARK IV, 500 F/4, 1.4x TC
1/1600, f/9, ISO 640 @ 700mm

[arash_hazeghi]

perfect Mital, love the sharp details sweet light and the water drop

[Mital Patel]

btw i just uploaded and realize feeling for need of a bit CW. Am I ?

[Stu Bowie]

Mital, good DOF, and you have captured excellent feather detail, and brought out the colours nicely. The droplet certainly does add something extra.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Gorgeous colors and light, Mital. Lovely specimen you've got here. The drop definitely adds.
If anything I'd have liked just a little bit of head turn towards us although this is good as is.

[Mital Patel]

Luckily i have another one same sort of better HA pose.

This is for those friends who wished just a lil bit of better HA.

removed some sticks on water on left ripples. removed some ripple curves crossing head and beak, layered gradient on bg to clean it up otherwise it was just messy patches of brown and green.

[Sachin Saraf]

Beautiful light, sharpness, DOF, BG, Low angle....Another Wonderful image!!!!

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Fine images...nice plumage and details. Water drop always adds a nice touch. Well done.

[Grace Scalzo]

Nice work, Mital. Fine quality and a beautiful species.

[Robert Holguin]

Wow!!! Gorgeous images. Love the light, water drop, and the ripples in the water. Excellent image. Well done.

[David Pugsley]

I was about to wish for a better HA and then I saw the second posting. Well done!

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

I personally love the original and feel the ha works for me. It has great depth and nice deep colors with super detail.The drop adds a great bonus..

[yogesh_puranik]

superb light sharpness and water drops is grt..mitral bhai

[Mark Itol]

Nice light and detail, Mital. The second shot works better for me due to the head angle.

[Harshad Barve]

Mitalbhai , this is one fine image and +1 for all super comments above
TFS

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the lighting, details, BG and water drop. Beautiful image Mital! I prefer the OP.