Face the Wind

We had an irruption here in 2011-2012 and I got out a couple of times to photograph them.  While there's no snow in the image, It was pretty cold that day and they like nicely exposed areas-in this case a sand spit called Damon Point near Ocean Shores, Washington.  This one was perched on a relatively small driftwood branch right above the beach and was pretty cooperative.  While some of the photographers got right up to it, I didn't feel comfortable with getting too close, so this is a fairly large crop.

1D4, 500mm f4 ISL + 1.4 TC, Jobu Gimbal on Gitzo legs, f/11, 1/1000, iso 400, manual exposure.  Processed in LR5 & CS6.  Cropped to 6.02 MP before resizing.  Taken January 11, 2012 at 10:57 AM.

Comments and criticisms are welcome and appreciated.

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