Larry, those are some excellent shots of the ducks. In number one, I hope some hunter takes out that drake hybrid who has some farm duck in him. We don't need him polluting the gene pool any more. That happens quite a bit by the way. Love the clarity that you got on those shots. That head shot is dynamite. Good job.
Al
Desert Drake wrote:
Larry, those are some excellent shots of the ducks. In number one, I hope some hunter takes out that drake hybrid who has some farm duck in him. We don't need him polluting the gene pool any more. That happens quite a bit by the way. Love the clarity that you got on those shots. That head shot is dynamite. Good job.
Al
Thank you Al,
There were 2 drake and 3 hen hybrids. It's said that Mallards are respondsible for many of the sub-species of duck. They sure are prolific little buggers.
Shasoc wrote:
Great job, Larry. The clarity of the detail is awesome, especially in #3. #5 is well in focus and the light is sweet.
Socrate
Socrate,
I really had some pretty good light and the ducks came quite close, both make such a difference, there was very little cropping other the the Drake head.
Nice work Larry! I do like the drake portrait the best. Nicely focused and clear. I do like the focal point on 4 I'm just not sure about the angle of the bird. I'm on the fence on that one 2 is similar but I think it works better. Real nice job on the IF gull, love the shot
Tim Kuhn wrote:
Nice work Larry! I do like the drake portrait the best. Nicely focused and clear. I do like the focal point on 4 I'm just not sure about the angle of the bird. I'm on the fence on that one 2 is similar but I think it works better. Real nice job on the IF gull, love the shot
Tim
TIm,
Thank you. Yep, the drake portrait is my favorite as well. The hen in the 4th photo was streching her neck forward to drink water.
Good job catching the sheen on the green head. That's harder to do than many people might realize. The big Manitoba mallards are down to South Dakota now, and I was out in my duck boat yesterday morning. I shot a limit of 5, mostly greenheads. The main flight isn't here yet, but as the lakes to my north continue to freeze the hunting will only get better!
2 is similar but I think it works better. Real nice job on the IF gull, love the shot 
