Escaping!

[Grace Scalzo]

The sand eel lost the battle and became breakfast for the Black Crowned Night Heron. Did a tiny bit of beach clean up.

1/1600, f 6.3, iso400
Canon 1mk4, 500 f4 + 1.4tc + lowered tripod (Flat)

[Dumay de Boulle]

Excellent IQ and light. I love the red eye!

[Satish Ranadive]

Fabulous image with lovely composition.Nice lights and BG. Loved the nice pose ,eyes and details.

[Davidwilliams]

Great composition with the sandeel ading to the shot

[Marina Scarr]

Absolutely love this capture, Grace. The light is terrific. Like how his feather fell to the near side of his body. Everything came together well for you here.

[PhilCook]

Always great to see a low angle shot and perfect timing, light is great too...only nit pic from me would be the small patch of green at the top of the foremost leg, but that's really being pedantic

[Steve Zamek]

Really sweet shot, Grace. I love the action pose and behavior you captured. Light and techs couldn't be better. If mine, I would probably crop just a bit off the top; feels like a bit too much empty space up there.

[Melissa Groo]

Wowee, what a stunning action shot, Grace! Beautiful IQ, sharpness, and such a singular moment you have captured. Just love it.

[Jim Crosswell]

Great image Grace! I like the action, IQ, composition and red eye.

[christopher galeski]

magic image,love the eel,nice lighting,and sharp.well done.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Grace, love your low perspective, and I really like the light in this too. You have brought out fine detail on the heron, sharp, great red eye, and the wriggling sand eel puts this over the top.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Cool! I can almost see the little sand eel wriggling for safety! Techs look great, as does the processing. I was going to suggest cropping more above, glad Steve suggested it.

[gail bisson]

Hi Grace,
I really like this. techs are excellent and great action and gotta love the wiggly worm. No nits there.
I would take a bit off the top and clean up the green vegetation under the breast.
Gail

[arash_hazeghi]

sweet action, nice light and great details! well done!

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful portrait, great details and eye contact.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Excellent light, IQ, low angle and action. I love this image! TFS.