Golden Plover - Kolea

The Golden Plover is a winter visitor to Hawaii. Adults typically return to

Hawaii in August from arctic nesting grounds. What a flight! But well

worth it to winter on Maui, yes? The white streaks = rain.

PDE

Very good catch Dominick! Generally, I would prefer more room on the right for the bird to fly into but this one work for me as well. Nice blur surrounding with the bird sharp. TFS!

First I want to say sorry for rating the image yesterday and not having time to comment... I thought the image was indeed well done, I will refrain from a lighting aspect as I think the work to keep the depth of field on the bird in flight with a multi focal point which could eaisly go to the back ground and blur the bird was a good shot... Blue sky shots are less likly to have that problem as no focal point in shear blue skies... The image is indeed worthy of good marks as I have marked very high as I was impressed as I said with the work you had to do to keep the image crisp!  MJ

Generally a nice picture, but I think the background detracts a bit from the bird in flight. I checked your details and it doesn't include any data on the DOF, but in the future, I think a very narrow DOF would greatly wipe out the B/G and focus attention on the actually very sharp bird.