season's greetings to all (osprey)

Canon EOS 40D, 500 f/4 L IS, 1.4 x T.C.

700 mm, f/7.1, 1/1250, iso - 400, apperture priority, -0.3 exp. compn.

i wish every one a merry christmas and happy and prosperous new year.

ramesh

Lovely Osprey... Nice stare... I would reduce the sharpening a little bit. The colour bands in the background look nice...
Thanks for sharing...
Season's Greetings to you and your family...

Hi Ramesh,
Wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Nice image. I like the background colours. I am not a big fan of man made structures, but when such a beautiful bird is perched, can't help it. At least the scat has kind of toned down the yellows. The side lighting brings out the form well. In this case, since the Osprey is directly looking at the barrel of the lens, the shadow due to the side lighting falls on the eye. That takes away a bit from the image. May be if you can pull up the shadows a bit, then it will look better. I am tempted to check how a lower contrast version will look like.

Where was this photographed?

Look forward to more.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

Lovely eye contact. Nice pose and perch. Agree with the above comments regarding lowering the contrast a bit. The BG is nice and clean. Lovely image.

Seasons Greetings to you too :).

Wah.... brilliant..... love the eyes....

Happy new year to you too :) Like the eye contact and great details... TFS