Uncertainty!

Great capture, Joe! These guys can be hard to get...they're almost always moving or looking in the wrong direction or behind their mom or standing in the wrong light or...hmmm sounds kind of like wildlife photography in general! Seriously, though...bighorn lambs are not the most cooperative and you captured a great look and a great moment. I appreciate the backstory too!

It looks like this might be a fairly substantial crop? If not perhaps you could get a little more fidelity with sharpening, but it has the look like you've taken it about as far as you can in this regard. I also noticed the OOF area in the top left of the background has kind of a unnatural look some call "nervous." If this was exacerbated by sharpening one thing I've done is duplicate my primary layer, sharpen, then mask out that area...it's a really quick fix for this, though it's really not a significant distraction in this image for me.

Nicely done!

Thanks John!

It was a straight vertical crop from what was originally a horizontal image so yes, it's a decent sized crop. Junior gave me exactly two shots before he moved behind the cliff edge so I didn't get a chance to recompose vertically. That nervous bookeh is something I've noticed that appears sometimes with the Canon 100-400 lens but I haven't figured out a consistent patter of when so I can try to avoid it. Thanks for the tip on how to fix it in post processing....cheers!

like the pose and surrounding, however in larger view especially background has visible lack of quality, easy fix in PC thank you for sharing......

I was dealing many times with stripes in BG, I changed my filter to high end from B+W and it helped a lot.....

Love that curious look and the layers of rock make for an interesting backdrop. Looking at the tech setting, i would imagine that they are optimal under the conditions. The lamb does look a little soft though, but its not far from being sharp.

Cute I would prefer a tighter crop.. just the top left is bit intrusive to otherwise a subtle image

I really dig the perspective here, good choice on the portrait format with the lamb looking down on you...I would tame the overall brightness just a tad and add some contrast here

I especially like the posture with tilted head suggesting inquisitive attitude.

Hey Joe, what strikes me immediately in this image are the nice diagonals; these make the image work for me! Nits covered.

Wonderful angle and look from the lamb, some good suggestions already mentioned but nice job in getting this difficult shot, way to go.

Thanks folks! I'll take a crack at making some of those adjustments with my limited PS skills. I'll try changing filters and see if that helps with the funky bookeh I'm getting in some of my photos. Cheers!

Very nice Joseph, I like everything about this. High cute factor, your LP looks great.
No nits - Well done

So I tried using blur in PS Elements on that top left corner and a tad of saturation to bring out the color in the rock a bit. I also changed the crop a tad to move the lamb a bit up, giving him more room to "jump" into the frame so to speak and am interested if anyone things this look is a bit better than the previous one? Thanks again for the comments and suggestions....cheers!

Love this photograph. Thanks for sharing.