Your best wild bird photo

Challenge #4 in the Wild birds series. Hosted by Ben_Egbert.

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high quality images of wild birds. No captive or domestic birds. No humans in the image. Must be in a wild or natural setting (back yards ok so long as no man made items are included and the birds are free wild birds).

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Announced:

Thursday, 20th January, 2011 (GMT)

Submissions:

Thursday, 27th January, 2011 – Wednesday, 2nd February, 2011 (GMT)

Voting:

Thursday, 3rd February, 2011 – Wednesday, 9th February, 2011 (GMT)

Processing rules:

none. Show us your best work and let the voters decide how good it is.

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

Please post at least 800 pixles on long edge and 1200 is better to view image quality.
Voters, please view full size and make imaage quality a high priority.

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Maximum number of entries in challenge:

100

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Cormorant and Fish

by Sinh Nhut Nguyen

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I've been after this moment for over 2.5 years. Most of the time the action happened too fast and too far away. Today with the combination of a short distant, good light, good presentation of both bird and prey I was able to make this image. As with any wildlife photograph, more or less, luck is always involved, and today for some reason this guy decided to play with his food for a good 3 minutes, and that is an eternity. Thanks for viewing, commenting and voting.

Camera:	Canon EOS 7D
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Submitted:	Thursday, 27th January, 2011 15:33 (GMT)
Taken:	Friday, 14th January, 2011
Focal length:	500 mm
Shutter speed:	1/2500 sec
Aperture:	F4.5
ISO:	200
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Views:	867
Galleries:	View this photo in Sinh Nhut Nguyen's gallery

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Total comments: 4

Congratulations on your patience. It paid off. Wonderful shot, what else can I say. I love it.

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They are good in giving pose unlike Anhinga.

but the framing you got horizontally near the level of water, lighting is great.

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Amazing stop action drama caught. Bravo!

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Awesome capture! How many years of photography, and how many thousand dollars, was the price for this photo?
Anyway, it deserve!

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