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Wood Ducks at North Chagrin
This Wood Duck image is from a couple weeks ago at North Chagrin Reservation. Added a slight bit of canvas on the left had side to give his back end more room. Thanks for looking, and C & C always welcome.

Wood Duck
7d, manual, 1/250sec @ 6.3, ISO 250, 700mm (500f/4L + 1.4x), fill flash at -2, taken at 9:39am
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Josh:
Lovely water, sharp, well exposed, good call on canvas extension, and well done.
Only minor crit. would be no purple cheek patch ( I have hundreds of really nice shots from that day without the patch too!), and perhaps the slightly hunkered down head position, not as flattering as possible.
Cheers
Randy
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Josh, cool and lazy swimming pose, with a good HA. I like the overall detail and colours, with subtle use of fill flash. Exquisite colour to the water, and what a pity there were ripples at time of capture through the reflection. Congrats on a fine capture.
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Beauty shot, Josh. I like the water and the almost perfect reflection.
Composition is excellent.
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Josh,
Magical water and light, excellent use of fill flash, You could teach a course on its use. The head angle and composition are excellent, superb job on adding the canvas. Exposure is excellent.. As hard as I try I cannot find anything I would want to change... excellent job!!!
Dan
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Hi Josh! I know this bird! It was great shooting with you. Congrats again on your awards! This shot is a real beauty. Wonderful colors, nice simple composition, perfect head turn, nice job on the exposure.
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What a killer capture with those absolutely gorgeous colors, Josh. It actually doesn't bother me at all on this one that there is no purple cheek patch. Really well done!
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This is a very beautiful image. Love the colors, the relaxed pose, and detail. Great work of the flash.
Well done.
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This looks over all very appealing with beautiful colours...nice work.
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Beautiful color Josh, the pose does looked squished, but they look this way at times.
Nice exposure, they are hard to do right and yours looks great.
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Stunning image Josh. Love that water and reflection, IMO there's just the right amount of ripples, not enough to completely distort the reflection but enough to add interest with the fall colors.
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Beautiful. I just love the streaming patterns thruout the water and the explosive colors as well.
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Stunning image, Josh. Love the comp, the reflection, the gorgeous colors. Nice work.
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Sweet image, love the water color.
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