Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray, Florida.
C and C appreciated.

A wonderful portrait, wonderful background and subject. Great job.

Tim

Dreamy & beautiful - - lovely portrait.

Lil

neck detail is superb, one of best I have ever seen.
and unique not seeing the neck all stretched out

Excellent Portrait with great sharpness and pose. All of these coming together make it seem like an Anhinga photo shoot.
Good Job.

Mighty pretty


Wacky roger

Very elegant. I agree with Tim. The bg is perfect. Great composition.

Scott

Beautiful portrait shot, Scott. It doesn't get better than this one. A pleasure to view.
Socrate

Nice portrait. It's hard to believe all that neck folded up that small.

Tim Kuhn wrote:
A wonderful portrait, wonderful background and subject. Great job.

Tim


Thanks Tim, much appreciated.

Scott

Lil Judd wrote:
Dreamy & beautiful - - lovely portrait.

Lil
Glad you enjoyed, Lil.

Scott

Dave In La wrote:
neck detail is superb, one of best I have ever seen.
and unique not seeing the neck all stretched out

Thats quite a compliment!

Thanks.
Scott

Brian Kersey wrote:
Excellent Portrait with great sharpness and pose. All of these coming together make it seem like an Anhinga photo shoot.
Good Job.

Thanks Brian,
Incredibly photogenic bird. And I was able to get up close and personal. In fact, I had to back away since the minimum focussing distance of the lens is about 7 feet!

Scott

thehotel wrote:
Mighty pretty


Wacky roger

Appreciated!

Scott

Scott-M wrote:
Very elegant. I agree with Tim. The bg is perfect. Great composition.

Scott

I was very pleased with how the bg came out. Quite a bit of noise in the image before some PS work.

Scott

Shasoc wrote:
Beautiful portrait shot, Scott. It doesn't get better than this one. A pleasure to view.
Socrate
Socrate,
Thanks for the high praise.
Scott

John Nieves wrote:
Nice portrait. It's hard to believe all that neck folded up that small.

Thanks. These are truly incredible birds, posing at great length and interesting in so many variations, esp around the neck feathers.

Scott

Wonderful shot Scott!

Doug

Doug Bentlage wrote:
Wonderful shot Scott!

Doug

Thanks Doug!
I'm an (often silent) admirer of your work.
Scott

Very nice. Thats a great place to shoot. Some of the urban backgrounds, can be troublesome. Show us more please!
Cheers
Harry

Very pretty.
Harsha

Lovely portrait and background! Maybe a tad too much space at the top would be my only nit.

Cheers
Gene

Harry, Harsha and Gene,
Thanks for the feedback.

Harry, I hope to have some images that I am as happy with as this one.

Gene, I think you are quite right: a bit off the top needed.

Scott

Niiiiiice -
Susan

This is a great shot - I have about 50 shots of this type bird and none are worth a hoot - even when the photo seems very sharp, the fuzzy head makes things look not so good.