So that's what flying looks like.

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So that's what flying looks like.
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This photograph was taken from the Zodiac on the Back River on Sept. 3 at 9AM. The Osprey’s nest is just to the right of this tree. Thank you for stopping by. Peter

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  • Aesthetic: Feedback on the overall visual appeal of the image, including its color, lighting, cropping, and composition.
  • Conceptual: Feedback on the message and story conveyed by the image.
  • Emotional: Feedback on the emotional impact and artistic value of the image.
  • Technical: Feedback on the technical aspects of the image, such as exposure, color, focus and reproduction of colors and details, post-processing, and print quality.

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Technical Details

Canon 5, Canon 100*500mm & 1.4ext. , f10, 661mm, 1/1600, -1EV, ISO 2500. The shot is cropped by 60% and I adjusted the highlights in DXO Photo Lab6.

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Wow that’s a great shot. I love the pose and the one foot up. The tips of the wings show just below the tail feathers, too. Enormous wingspan on these guys. I like the looking up and out pose as if its not quite decided on flying yet. You could crop the OOF leaves on the very left edge and maybe a bit on the right; keeping most of the open space where it’s looking of course. What a treat to see one so close and in the open.

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Beautiful bird nicely posed and captured. I like the composition though I might crop in slightly more from the left. Nicely done.

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Great to see an osprey without a fish in its talons! It’s a fine pose, and I like the old oak tree too.

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Wonderful capture, and moreso to be from a boat! I kine the quizzical look but it looks like this young female has figured how to fly a little bit – or do they branch? I’ve never seen a nest that didn’t look like the Space Needle so I doubt branching would be in their genes.

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This is a lovely picture Peter, especially as you were in a boat to get it.
I think that it shows the bird in it’s environment well and offers us the slightly questioning look. I too would take out the OOF leaves on the left of frame.
To me the top of the head is just slightly merging with the focused foliage behind but overall I like it a lot.
Ospreys don’t nest in my part of the world, but I am hoping to see one maybe in spring as they do occasionally stop off in the south of England on their way to Scotland for the summer

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Hi Kristen, Terry, Mike, Diane & Ryan
Thank you for your kind words. Diane, this juvenile had just landed in the tree, after a rather tuff love flying lesson the the adult Osprey.
Peter

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Lovely image, and I do like the natural feel to it. Nice work from a boat, good balancing skills. And thanks for explaining the title of your post :wink: . Nice work, Peter ! Hans

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Hi Hans
Thank you for your kind words.
The Zodiac is really quiet stable and it allows me to shot from very shallow water.
Peter