Stork fishing

Gallery: AvianPosted September 26, 2011158 views11 comments

Saddlebilled Stork fishing ( hope, I'm identifying and spelling it correctly, as I'm not familiar with African birds)
This looks like our Black necked Stork, but it has more colorful beak.
Thank you so much for your kind attention & views!
Canon 7D; 500mm; ISO 400; 1/250 sec at F 5.
Jagdeep Rajput

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11 comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on September 26, 2011 at 9:48 AM

Very nice, Jagdeep. Excellent pose and composition. Exposure looks good.

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on September 26, 2011 at 11:25 AM

Incredible bird, looks almost unreal

Anyway, as much as I like the bird, colors, pose and composition both images do not seem very sharp to me, or it must be my tired eyes.. It looks like the focus point was on the body instead if the head or eyes... Still pleasant to look at though, and as I said an real hammer of a species

, Cheers, Hans

Registered on August 31, 2011, 491 Posts, 3807 Comments

Comment posted by Cheryl Molennor on September 26, 2011 at 1:04 PM

What a freeky looking bird.Nice low angle and reflection.

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Comment posted by Fabio Giarrizzo on September 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM

Beautiful colourful species- Great colours and fine detail on this one- Thanks for sharing, Fabio

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Comment posted by May Haga on September 26, 2011 at 2:22 PM

Wow, what a colorful bird. Very nicely done.
May

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Comment posted by Eric Diller on September 26, 2011 at 2:52 PM

Nice composition and what a beauty of a bird! I would agree with Hans on the soft focus on the head and neck.
Regardless I would love to photograph one of these birds......nice job.

Registered on October 2, 2009, 69 Posts, 434 Comments

Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on September 26, 2011 at 5:47 PM

Jagdeep, that is one awesome looking stork. I think your focus was fine and the blur in the head and beak is motion blur from the rather slow SS. Gives a sense of action and works ok for me.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on September 26, 2011 at 8:45 PM

A cool look at this bird Jagdeep, maybe a little more room on the right if you have it in the original.

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Comment posted by Jeffry Oonk on September 27, 2011 at 3:49 AM

Yep, that's well identified Jagdeep.
You caught this stunning stork at the right time. Great action.
These seems to be a slight blur in the head, which is probably cause by the fast movement of the bird in his attempt to catch the fish.
I suppose this square image has been cropped, when possible I would like to see a little more space on the right side of the frame.

Thx
Jef

Registered on February 5, 2011, 21 Posts, 122 Comments

Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on September 27, 2011 at 8:02 AM

Agree with you friends, it's a motion blur on the head... light was bad on that day.
Jagdeep Rajput

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Comment posted by Jim Hackley on September 27, 2011 at 11:55 AM

What a colorful beak, I like the composition and pose plus you can just see the head reflected in the water, nice job in getting this difficult color contrast shot, well done.

Registered on September 17, 2009, 302 Posts, 5535 Comments