While photographing with Lou Newman and Ron Mayberry in Sarasota Bay on Ron's boat, we had lots of Brown Pelicans bringing rather large items to their nests. This bird (with a Sabal palm ??? branch) was photographed with the (much maligned) Canon 100-400 IS L Zoon lens at 310mm (handheld) with the EOS-50D. ISO 640. Evauative metering +2 stops: 1/1000 sec. at f/5.6 set manually.
Quick Masked the mangrove and applied a 40 pixel Gaussian blur.
Thanks for the ride, Ron!
Don't be shy; all comments welcome. I am here to learn too.