Egret with nesting material

[Allen Sparks]

Canon 7D, Canon 400mm f4 DO, 1.4x TC II, monopod
ISO 400, f8, 1/2000s

[Doug Brown]

Excellent sharpness, behavior, and pose. The green BG looks great. I could see a little more room on the left of the frame.

[Satish Ranadive]

Fabulous flight pose. Nesting material in the beak gives artistic feel in the frame.Love pose and details on bird.

[arash_hazeghi]

Excellent, love the pose and nesting material. super sharp with fine detail. Agree with Doug re more space
well done

[Mike Milicia]

Wonderful flight shot ... great wing position, exposure, detail, and BG!
Agree about more space.
If this is a crop and you have enough room, might be nice to not have the nesting material clipped.

[stuart wanuck]

lovely image great exposure and focus nesting material makes it well done

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

already some good advice above on the composition aspects.

Loved this one, Allen. really sharp and excellent exposure control. bird angle could not have been better. Well done. A pleasure to look at, this shot.

[Arthur Morris]

Lovely downstroke wing position and a good look at the face with a good head angle. Do you have more room all around?

[Daniel Cadieux]

Yes, more room all around is needed...otherwise excellent. I love the shadows between the primaries.

[Allen Sparks]

Here is a repost. That is all the room I have on bottom unfortunately. Thanks everyone for their comments...

[Randy Stout]

Allen:

Lovely bird, nice pose, sharp, well exposed,

Looking at your original, I would consider pruning up the stick exiting the frame below, just enough to allow you to add a little canvas there. Depending on how much canvas you add below, might then trim a balancing amount off the top. I could also see a tiny trim off the right side to move him more to the right in the frame.

Cheers

Randy