La Jolla Pelican

Gallery: AvianPosted January 16, 201494 views13 comments

Visited La Jolla cliffs over the holidays for the first time to shoot these beautiful Pacific Brown Pelicans. It was an interesting study in color texture and shape - I had a blast. This is a pre-sunrise shot.

1Dx, 600 II, 1/500, f5, Iso 1600

Comments and critiques welcome

Comments

13 comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on January 16, 2014 at 10:28 PM

Beautiful, Randy. Great preening pose and eye contact and prime plumage. Excellent exposure and detail.

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Comment posted by Jerry Austin on January 16, 2014 at 10:44 PM

Love that feather detail. The image is very sharp. The background looks a bit unnatural to me. Perhaps it is over saturated a bit. Great capture.

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Comment posted by Greg AshworthFanch on January 16, 2014 at 11:50 PM

I love the detail in the feathers! I also like the red, yellow, and black colors adding a little pop. Well captured.

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Comment posted by David Rowe on January 17, 2014 at 4:09 AM

Simply fantastic in every detail!

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Comment posted by Sharon Hallowell on January 17, 2014 at 7:46 AM

Wonderful details and pose, and I like the bg, too! Nice capture. Sharon

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Comment posted by Chet Dowell on January 17, 2014 at 9:55 AM

Absolutely gorgeous. I like everything about it. great work.

Chet

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Comment posted by Carol Nichols on January 17, 2014 at 10:04 AM

Randy, the preening pose here really shows off the feathers on this beautiful bird. Very nice composition.

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Comment posted by Jim Hackley on January 17, 2014 at 11:38 AM

Amazing color pattern to this Pelican. I like the head turn pose with open beak, way to go.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on January 17, 2014 at 8:43 PM

Beautiful preening pose with great bg colors Randy, nicely done

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Comment posted by Ákos Lumnitzer on January 18, 2014 at 12:56 AM

It is a very nice image. Well done.

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on January 18, 2014 at 11:09 AM

Good color and interesting image. I've been thinking of a similar visit - only a 6 hour drive away.

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Comment posted by Yun Gao on January 18, 2014 at 8:07 PM

Very nice image. I like it very much.

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Comment posted by John Robinson on January 19, 2014 at 12:36 PM

Fantastic looking bird and the detail Wow! I do find the water drags my eye a bit- almost competing with the georgeous bird colours. But thats just me.
Cheers
John

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