Theme: Mating Least Terns with Offering

[Roman Kurywczak]

Well.....Daniel asked for the fish.....so he got it! I had dozens of opportunities with these guys and worked quite a few different poses and angles. I may have wanted a slight head turn by her more......but will work on it during next years tour out there!
Hour or so after sunrise. Canon 1D Mark 3 with the Sigma 300-800 @ 731mm at f/7.1 for 1/3200 sec and ISO 500 all tripod mounted with Wimberly head standing in water with tripod lowered. Minimal crop all around and some minor beach clean up.

[dankearl]

Another winner here, Roman, great pose, action, fish, it all looks good.

[Satish Ranadive]

Great action captured.Like the pose and fish.

[Frank Schauf]

Nice composition and excellent expsoure control and sharpness.

[Ofer Levy]

Great beaviour shot!

[Daniel Cadieux]

Excellent behaviour image, love the clean sand...and of course the fish sharing (looks like male Least Terns have more luck!!)

[Stu Bowie]

Hey Roman, very well timed to have captured this moment. Love the opposite poses, one with full wingspread, the other surrendering to receive the fish. Did I mention how well you have exposed this.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

what a shot, Roman. the contorted head position of the female, the eye contact with the fish, the drama...awesome stuff.

I might be in minority, but if mine, I'd back off a bit on the beach cleanup front. It seems too clean :-) if you leave a few pebbles in, it would be better....that just my honest opinion.