Anhinga II

The background is water - thought it made a nice backdrop (not that

I had a choice!). Comments?

Excellent ccomposition,very good exposure & light,Kim. The background is beautiful. The image looks like a wash-painting.

This is a lovely image spoiled only by the tail-less bird. I do wonder why the contrast fades away at the base of the bird? And I like your framing much better on this image.

the background is wonderful, gives such a dreamy, otherwordly nature to the picture!

Contrast fades away because of grasses in front of the bird that are out-of-focus. I do have shots with the whole bird, but chose to crop at the bottom to allow more focus on the lighting on his head, plus reduce the distraction from the grass. This was such an interesting bird and I've never seen one before. I hope to find him in the same spot often, but with better lighting (I was shooting ISO 500). It was early in the a.m.

This guy's cute. I love the backgrounds you've been getting on these shots.

A delight of photograph, Kim. The pose and background are unique. Excellent composition, colors and DOF. Best regards!

Thanks for visiting, everyone.

Beautiful capture, Kim.... I love the composition and the soft background!

Interesting shot, Kim, the light on the bird's body is good and I like the background water effect.

Here is the whole body of the bird in case anyone is interested.

What a beautiful bird! I love water as a background, too. I hope you see him again.

Great shot Kim. I really thought you did a great job croping it like you did.

You have a great eye for making a good photo into a fantastic one.

Kind Regards Andrea

The soft lighting and background work beautifully here. . . It took me about a year after I first saw this bird to get close enough to get an unobstructed shot. .

The bird was very cooperative and let me take lots of pictures; unfortunately, the lighting was very low (early morning) and I had grass in the foreground. But I got to see him up close and they are very interesting birds.

Anhinga is the type of bird? Looks like a brown pelican and a cormorant found themselves together one lonely night. Nice choice of composition.

Definitely a funky looking bird, Jamie, but pretty cool to see. It's quite big - more like a large heron size than a cormorant.