Voted Best Image 23Jul-5th Aug - Little Grebe Wing Flap!

Canon EOS 1D MKII, 600mm non IS, 1.4x conv, f7.1, 1/1000, ISO 250, Wimberley head, NPN groundshot plate (borrowed),Hide, RAW, RSE, CS2, Slight crop.

Hi All,

I have some nice shots of the Little Grebe swimming, but I really liked this one when it clambered onto the mud and flapped it's wings. They look very awkward on land!!

Ideally if I had been quick enough, would have liked to slower the shutter speed to get more wing blur, but hopefully the flying water droplets and mud will help things

All comments welcome

Regards

Rob

Wow!
This is good Rob,really good.

Timed superbly and what an amazing pose and behavioural shot to have in your collection.
The water droplets are a real added bonus,IMO.

Totally envious as it's a species I've yet to get a decent shot of.

Hi Rob

What a super shot, I can't recall seeing a Little Grebe image like this before. Great timing, lovely light, nicely composed, no nits really. Top class shot.

cheers

Sean

p.s. Is that a bit of sensor dust about an inch to the left of the Grebe's beak? Get the clone stamp and sort it out, it spoils the lovely effect of the water droplets.

Cheers Sean,

Convinced myself it was a bit of flying mud but think you were right, anyway it's in cyberspace now

Rob

Hi Rob

Yep, the finishing touch, whatever it was it is a better image without it. Super image, I bet it looks great printed as well.

cheers

Sean

Superb behavioural image, with a touch of humour. Excellent.

Never seen one of these out of the water, or even a photo of one out of the water- love it.

Very nice indeed, and I haven't seen one out of the water (other than on a nest) either.

Now this is stonking, pure eye candy.



Tim

Hello Rob

Never seen them out of the water and for you to get such a great shot is excellent, good stuff.



Danny

Hi Rob
I am sure this is an unique shot. What a Capture.
John
Aberdeen

All been said - super image!

David

Very unusual and well captured.

Major

Hi Rob,its all been said but excellent capture



Barrie

Fantastic image Rob. It has all been said but like Tim said, that workshop seems to have put you on another level. Superb -in fact all your images in the past few days have been top notch stuff.



Graeme

Hi All,

Thanks all very much for your kind comments

Anyway as you all liked it so much, here's another from the same sequence.

Regards

Rob

Hi Rob

Another nice post, I prefer the first one, mainly for the water droplets and also the bird is a fraction larger in the frame. Did you crop the first shot? If so I would crop the second one too.

Both excellent images, at 8fps you must have enough for a nice flash animation sequence

cheers

Sean

Hi Rob,

The re-post is another cracker but for sheer impact the original post will take some beating.Seeing the two images together like this, really portrays the added interest and appeal that the flying water droplets contribute to the overall image,at least IMHO.

Hello Rob

I like the middle one best, excellent and different.
Best wishes
Phil

What a lovely shot Rob, it's a difficult specie to get out of the water, congratulations. I only have a minor nit, to me it seems like you need to rotate the image a bit, both the mud-edge, but also the line of focus in the mud seems to need some CCW rotation.

Excellent shot, some of the best I've seen of this species.