Royal Spoonbills

nzmacro · May 1, 2014

More on the Royal Spoonbills. Large bird that is graceful in flight, but rather clumsy on the deck and they get up to some funny antics sometimes.

1: The ballerina

2: Looking up

3: Straight up and tough work on an old man's neck with a 500mm

4: Blasting through

5: On take off

6: Just cruising

7: Huh, 4 wings, what's up with that One behind the other

Sony NEX-7 and either the Canon FD 500 F/4.5L or the 800 F/5.6L

All the best folks.

Danny.

Raj_55555 · May 1, 2014

These are some of your best work I've seen Danny. Each and everyone of them are unique in their own way. #5 is just wow, not enough words to praise that shot. And the last one looks like a mythological creature with 4 wings.. You've set such high bars that the extraordinary shots like #2 & #3 seem like an average shot for you.

DLeeT · May 1, 2014

Danny: I did notice that #4 was off a bit. I took the liberty of correcting it for you. It needed a slight bit of straighting, the colors were just a tiny bit off, and I added a bit of sharpening to correct for the small mis-focus. I hope you enjoy the improved version and no need to thank me! Lee

P.S. As usual beautiful shots of a beautiful bird, Danny.

nzmacro · May 1, 2014

DLeeT said:
Danny: I did notice that #4 was off a bit. I took the liberty of correcting it for you. It needed a slight bit of straighting, the colors were just a tiny bit off, and I added a bit of sharpening to correct for the small mis-focus. I hope you enjoy the improved version and no need to thank me! Lee

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P.S. As usual beautiful shots of a beautiful bird, Danny.

LOL, confirmed, Lee is as mad as I am

upside down as well for us down under, ha.

Its actually bang on Lee, I'm listening to "Voodo chile" from Hendrix and this is perfect mate. LOL.

All the best Lee, big smiles

and thanks Raj, appreciated from here.

Danny.