Roseate from High Island

@Allen_Sparks roseate shot inspired me to go back and look for one of mine. Shot this at High Island rookery a few years back.

Techs:
D3s
200-400 VR1, shot at 400mm
ISO 500
1/2000
f/8

Little bit of a crop for comp. Sharpened the bird in PS and ran some NR on the BG. All feedback welcome.

You may only download this image to demonstrate post-processing techniques.

Hi Lyle,
Nice flight pose with the bird slightly angled toward us. Interesting wing position with a slight blur at the near wing tip. Excellent image quality with fine sharpness. My only suggestion would be to see how a slight crop off the right looks. Very fine image.

Excellent detail in the Spoonbill, Lyle. Good wing position and the flight angle is perfect. You might want to play with the tree behind the head. The darkness of it tends to pull the eye. I think if you could make it about the same brightness as the tree on the right it would work very well.

Superb image. I agree about cropping away a little off the right. Some of us here on the site are not fond of centered images.