Comb-crested Jacana

[wigz]

Saw a pair of these at Tygum the other day but they stayed well away; so far away that it was difficult to get the camera to focus on them, but I managed to get a couple of reasonably sharp shots.

I'm not sure why I bothered as I have better images of these birds. This is 1800 x 1300 cropped from the full 7360 x 4912 frame then resized to 1200 wide for the forum.

Nikon D800, Nikkor 500mm PF f/5.6. 1/2000 f/5.6 ISO 400

[David_MC]

Nice shot. The feet look almost out of place on it.

[wigz]

Thanks. the toes are really long.

[Isac]

Good quality for being in the distance Alan. Very colourful bird and that BG makes it pop.

[wigz]

Thanks Isac.

[avkomp]

image looks good for a crop.
I like the pose on the bird too
perhaps a tad more sharpening around eye?
shows how good modern optics have come too
good work

[wigz]

Thanks Stephen. It's really too small for anything but web display. The optics and autofocus systems are amazing really, and even the ten year old camera still gives good results.

[HansE]

I like both the bird and the contrasting background. The background is what I would have ordered if it would have been possible to do so.

[wigz]

Thanks Hans. I would have liked to have been able to get lower to give more blur in FG and bg but not really possible at that spot.

[dolina]

Alan, you have a great image.

Any chance you had your camera closer to the ground?

[wigz]

Thank you. I wasn't able to get much lower as I was on tha approach to a foot-bridge.