Crested Cormorant

Gallery: AvianPosted January 18, 2014238 views7 comments

Double-Crested Cormorant, starting to show breeding colours and crest

D300s (then)
700mm
1/1250 sec, f/8
Mode: Av
Metering: Multi-segment
ISO: 500
AF mode: AF-C
White balance: AUTO
Flash: Off
Hand-held

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Rick Turner on January 18, 2014 at 1:11 PM

Creature from the past and great hair do. Sweet Sandy

Registered on February 18, 2012, 534 Posts, 2755 Comments

Comment posted by Scott Frye on January 18, 2014 at 1:23 PM

Great job on the blacks and the turquoise eyes look good -- interesting colors on the beak

Registered on February 3, 2007, 387 Posts, 1136 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Ditch on January 18, 2014 at 3:16 PM

Very nice. Good tones and detail; very natural.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1031 Posts, 12705 Comments

Comment posted by Rick Turner on January 18, 2014 at 3:33 PM

Creature from the past and great hair do. Sweet Sandy

Registered on February 18, 2012, 534 Posts, 2755 Comments

Comment posted by Sharon Hallowell on January 18, 2014 at 4:27 PM

The small version looks like somebody wrote in Chinese on it's bill! Nice details, and oh, that crazy eye! Sharon

Registered on November 1, 2003, 392 Posts, 4810 Comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on January 18, 2014 at 7:32 PM

Nice composition, Sandy. Great pose and crazy eye.

Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments

Comment posted by Ákos Lumnitzer on January 19, 2014 at 3:54 AM

Looks great to me. Love the groovy eyes, they really pop!

Registered on April 24, 2004, 25 Posts, 510 Comments