Common Loon with Chicks

Gallery: AvianPosted July 5, 2013371 views18 comments

Canon7D, 400mm 5.6lens,1/400sec,f7.1,ISO200. approx 70% of original, taken from a boat in evening sunlight.
Everything is late this year because of weather. These may be the some of the earliest hatches in Ontario.
Great that we only have to upload one file. I'm going to start posting again.

Comments

18 comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on July 5, 2013 at 12:08 PM

Beautiful light, and the chicks are terminally cute.

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Comment posted by May Haga on July 5, 2013 at 12:10 PM

Stunning capture Roger, wish we could get this close to our loons.
May

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Comment posted by Douglas Graham on July 5, 2013 at 12:56 PM

Pretty much prefect. Ive never seen a loon or heard their song in person but its at the top of my list.

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Comment posted by Daniel & Loana on July 5, 2013 at 3:09 PM

Wonderful colours and great details. I like the low POV.
D&L

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Comment posted by Jefferson Silva on July 5, 2013 at 8:16 PM

Very nice, Roger.
Do you have any chance to add more space to the left?

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Comment posted by Patrick O'Healy on July 5, 2013 at 10:24 PM

Love the closeup, the colors and the tack sharp eye. We all too often only want to post complete bird shots. This portrait is very pleasing.

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on July 6, 2013 at 12:15 AM

A beautiful family close-up in wonderful light. Love all the different color tones in the water. Excellent exposure work.

Sweet Photo Roger!!!

Ken Archer

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Comment posted by Claude Dagenais on July 6, 2013 at 7:59 AM

Excellent family picture Roger. The chicks look totally relaxed on the parents back.

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on July 6, 2013 at 10:27 AM

Wonderful shot with great detail and sharpness. The water and background reflection are just awesome. Being it a 70% crop I assume the 100% version does not show the bird in full length ? At any rate a hammer

, Hans

Registered on August 31, 2011, 491 Posts, 3807 Comments

Comment posted by Roger Leekam on July 6, 2013 at 5:15 PM

Thanks, everyone. I have the whole loon, but I preferred a close crop to show the chicks' faces in detail. I may change it to show the full reflection, though.

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on July 7, 2013 at 11:22 AM

I would like to see the whole loon as well. I don't have a problem at al with portraits though. But I am wondering why if you were going to crop as a portrait, you chose to include the entire chick body? My guess is that is what you want the viewer to focus on? With that said, wondering what it would look like if you cut off the chicks bodies also and did just a head portrait on al to focus more on the intimacy between mother and chicks?

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Comment posted by scott lanz on July 9, 2013 at 10:40 AM

Beautiful, intimate capture, Roger. I'd also like to see the full body/reflection image.

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Comment posted by bill potter on July 9, 2013 at 11:10 PM

Roger, You captured my heart in this one...My bucket list has this one very high priority...Very nice eye, detail and expressions on the peeps, also the reflection and background make for a great image...Only thing that might make it perfect would be a little less crop, not cutting the back of the body and maybe a little more frame to the left in the direction she is looking...Again very minor and a beautiful image!

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Comment posted by Basri Akcasoy on July 10, 2013 at 3:51 PM

Excellent pose and details, very high degree of cuteness. TFS.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on July 10, 2013 at 5:36 PM

Congrats Roger, beautiful lighting and intimate image

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on July 10, 2013 at 11:23 PM

Very sweet light - terrific poses and cute chicks.
Congrats on the WP!
Sandy

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Comment posted by Roger Leekam on July 11, 2013 at 10:00 PM

Thanks, everyone. Several of you kind people would like to see the uncropped version which I'll be posting shortly.

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on July 13, 2013 at 1:04 PM

Sweet image Roger, a well deserved WP!

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