Egret Preening

[Sid Garige]

Gatorland, Orlando

D300 200-400mm VR

F8 1/1200, SB800 at -1&1/3

[John Cooper]

A beautiful image Sid with the eye peering through the nuptial plumes. The crop works for me and good exposure for the whites!! Well done!

[Maxis Gamez]

Hey Sid,

Love the BG. You did well keeping the eye sharp. The composition works very well.

Excellent work!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great composition, pose and colors.

[David Steele]

Beautiful Sid. I agree with all the comments.

[Jim Poor]

Awesome. Great green BG to go with the breeding color in the lores!

[Gus Cobos]

Sid, great capture, eye contact and colors...:D

[Robert Amoruso]

I know that bird Sid!

You did better then I getting this pose. Nice work, I like it.

[Raul Quinones]

Great pictures, like the sharp eye and colors.

[Michael Pancier]

the green take it over the top sid. great shot.

[Glenn Bartley]

very pretty image Sid

[Francis Bossé]

Very nice, I like the matching colors of the eye and the background! Well done!

[Mike Tracy]

It's hard to fault this due to the composition, sharpness and control of the whites. The darker green area behind the back of his neck does to seem to be out of place in a otherwise pretty background. Could just be me though.

[Sid Garige]

The darker green area behind the back of his neck does to seem to be out of place in a otherwise pretty background. Could just be me though.

Mike,

me too. I tried to patch that up. After couple of unsuccessful attempts, I decided to keep it as it is.

[Mike Godwin]

Very nice Sid, I like it as is. Looks like you have been getting great results at Gatorland!

Mike Godwin
Gatorland

[Robert Smith]

SWEET! That dark area & the slight softness of some of the plume filaments would be my only nits, and those would be minor. Congrats on the capture - you did well with this one!

[Nikolay Staykov - shotlandetsa]

gorgeous image!

[Marko Matesic]

just fantastic!