Black-necked Stilt (Mimantopus mexicanus), Merritt Island NWR, Florida


-- Steve Kaufman (skphoto@xyz.net), July 13, 1999

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Beautifull, simple!!

-- Karthik (BioScope@hotmail.com), July 13, 1999.

Beautiful!!! (... no suggestions for improvements, sorry :-))

-- Jana Mullerova (jana.mullerova@eurocontrol.be), July 14, 1999.

Steve,

Beauty shot, eh? I could make the obligatory criticism that it needs a catchlight, but that's pretty much a knee-jerk response and its probably there on the slide anyway. Lovely photo of a superb bird.

Peter

-- Peter May (peter.may@stetson.edu), July 14, 1999.

Excellent!

-- Alan Yeo (nature_sg@yahoo.com), July 14, 1999.

Like the ripples and the way the bird seems to be studying its own reflection.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), July 15, 1999.

This is certainly a nice shot. Perhaps it is a problem in the scan, but the front of the stilt is a bit washed out. Part of the problem is the contrast on the bird itself with black and white areas as well as the strong front lighting. A graduated ND filter would help, but it is hard to use one on a moving subject. Was the stilt moving? [And if Steve used a long lens for this shot, it would be hard to find (and pay for) a huge filter that would fit the front of a super-telephoto.]

-- Shun Cheung (shun@worldnet.att.net), July 15, 1999.

I love the picture, and my only constructive suggestion would be to move your copyright notice further into the bottom left corner so that it does not distract the viewer.

Thanks for sharing your work with us.

-- Michael Berney (mberney@fjc.gov), July 16, 1999.

10 of 10!

-- Steve K. (ykuan@u.washington.edu), July 16, 1999.