Marabou Stork

Gallery: AvianPosted April 7, 2017137 views5 comments

Some Mother must love him, but these guys perform a key roll out in the bush and commonly known as 'The Undertakers'.

Thanks for the comments & replies on the previous image.

Steve

Subject: Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) late afternoon light
Location: Botswana
Camera: Canon 1DX
Lens: 500mm MKII with 2x MKIII HH
Exposure: 1/1000s at f/8 ISO400
Original format: Landscape, very small crop for presentation
Processed via: LRCC & PSCC2017

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on April 7, 2017 at 7:11 AM

Some birds are downright ugly from our point of view, but this is a really cool portrait. The balance feels just a bit off to me, Steve. Maybe a touch off the right to a 6x7?

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Comment posted by Stephen Kaluski on April 7, 2017 at 9:10 AM

Cheers Dennis, for something that stands shy of a 5ft in height, it's still ugly. cool

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Comment posted by David Schoen on April 7, 2017 at 12:57 PM

Steve, a fascinating image with wonderful color and detail and an excellent background to make it pop. But I would be in agreement with Dennis on this one with respect to the crop. I first looked at it with my iPad air 2 in portrait mode and it came up with a touch off the right and the 6 x 7 crop as Dennis had suggested. It looks good that way.

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Comment posted by Steve Thompson on April 7, 2017 at 3:58 PM

Really nice look at a really ugly bird Steve. The image detail is quite good.

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Comment posted by Bill Leggett on April 7, 2017 at 8:25 PM

Excellent portrait, Steve, fine detail in the big image. I like the iridescent darker plumage.

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