Solo Autumn Dunlin.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Another image of this migrating shorebird. The two Dunlins that were foraging together pretty much stayed side-by-side, only rarely one would venture too far out from the other. Here's one brief occasion when one of them was left standing alone.

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/400s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, FF, a few brighter spots toned down via burn and clone tools, darkened pupil, a few specks in the water removed via spot healing brush.

[Karl Egressy]

Beautiful image, Daniel. There are a couple of spots close to the tail end that I would smoothen out if it were mine.

[Andrew Merwin]

I really like the BG colors & the POV here Daniel. Excellent techs as usual. The water droplet on the bill takes this image up a couple of notches. TFS.

[Nick Palmieri]

Nice low angle, tack sharp and gorgeous BG. Wish those bright spots near the tail were toned down a bit but I like this one a lot.

[David Salem]

The detail in the bird looks great and I like the overall colors. I really like the water and ripples just below the bird. I agree about the light spots but not a biggie for me. Well done Daniel.

[Bob Serling]

Beautiful image. It would not have been the same without the water droplet which adds so much character to the photo.

[Marina Scarr]

Love that window bringing you into the subject, the colors and that water drop. This is a killer image, Daniel, with those colors and low angle.

[Bill Dix]

Just lovely. Your usual muddy low POV, wonderful colors, water drop. In a perfect world the light oof object intruding into the far left wouldn't have been there, but a beautiful image as is.

[Randy Stout]

Daniel:

Lovely isolation, shooting angle, colors,exposure.

Cheers

Randy

[keith mitchell]

Daniel wildlife photography at it's best IMHO love everything about it.

Keith.:S3:

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Gorgeous light and colors Daniel. The water drop is special and the low angle and dof work great

[dankearl]

The usual great POV and the colors are very nice and subtle.
I really like the water swirl.

[Shawn Zierman]

A few things jump out at me from this beautiful image. 1.The colors are sweet and unusual regarding dunlin images. 2.That is some nice deep water to capture a Dunlin in, and I like how the belly feathers are pulled into the water further covering up the legs. 3.Your subject isolation here is impossible to improve.....lovely frame sir.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

The fall colors are a bit plus for me on this one. Definitely worth a print, IMO.