One more Ring-billed Gull

[Bill Dix]

This juvenile was captured just about a year ago, with bird and trees beyond catching the last rays of the sun. Does the tree color overwhelm the bird? Thought about de-saturating the bg, but left it as the camera saw it. Almost FF - took 5% off left side for comp.

D90 | 80-400 VR @ 360mm | ISO 640 | 1/640s @ f/7.1 | -0.7 EV

[Alan Murphy]

A different Bg for a Gull image. I like it. The bird is a bit big in the frame for me.

[Karl Egressy]

Nice background and pose, Bill. I love to shoot Gulls of any kind.

[Jim Crosswell]

Nice image Bill! The BG is bright but that is fall. I like the wing position and details.

[Doug Brown]

I'm not used to seeing gulls against a BG of fall foliage, so that's pretty cool. The bird is placed a little too high in the frame for me; I'm guessing that you ran out of tree.

[James Salywoda]

Beautiful fall colors for a bg and really nicely captured Bill

[Bill Dix]

Thanks, guys, for the comments. Yes, I would have liked just a slivver more room on top and right, but this is almost full-frame; only slight cropping was done on left and bottom. I'll track him better next time - I think he was starting to get ahead of me.