Can you see what's in my eye please?

Silver gull on San Remo beach, Victoria Australia

I was very impressed with this image. It's not especially pretty, but the right on capture of speed and light was awesome. Must have been a great telephoto lens as well. Would love to know a little bit about how it happened.

Very funny! Excellent timing, perfect focus and very nice control of the whites.

Thanks for the comments Susan. No, it's not a pretty image. I put it up for a bit of fun. I took the photo of the whole bird on the beach as it was scratching itself. I used my Canon 100-400 f4.5-5.6 L IS USM lens at 260mm handheld. I had accidentally left the ISO at 800 so at f5.6 I had a speed of 1/8000 which would stop anything. It is a very good lens for bird photographs. I was going to put the whole bird shot up but thought the close crop had more impact. The image was sharp enough to do this.Regards, Neil

Thanks very much for the comments, Jamie. Kind Regards, Neil

Neil, this a most amazing bird shot.I've never seeing them do this, yet. The other bird photos in your portfolio are very beautiful too. Cheers, Sam.

ESTE SI QUE TE OBSERVA , UNA ORIGINAL POSE DEL AVE CON UNA GRAN REALIZACION , UN SALUDO

Personally I think its a great shot,love the antics of gulls.

A special photo; really like it; a good moment!

Thank you all very much for the comments. Much appreciated. Regards, Neil

Gracias mucho por sus comentarios, Reencarnacion. Un cordial saludo.

It's always satisfying to capture a "moment" and if that "moment" is also captured well-clear, sharp, balanced-you really have something special. Great work here and of course on the rest of your wonderful portfolio. The horse racing shots are a real treat!

 

Sara

A very good capture Neil.... so different and very amusing... Well done... Kim :o)

It's a very "cute but funny" shot. I like it.

 

Thanks for sharing:)

 

 

 

 

 

Tom

Thanks for your comments on my pics this one is great a well captured momment very good...thanks allan

i can see myself in ur eye.

lolzzzzz

 

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