Wood duck drake - 3-year project

[zeroendless]

I recently bumped into a local bird asked me the wood duck gallery i promised to show long ago. Yeah, never finished ..... The project has been dragging on for 3 years, it's about time i gave up the nest and flight shots that aren't likely to happen, and start working on post processing.

Let's start with a few of the Drake.....

#1 Taken with iphone. Shooting location, White Rock lake, this is probably one of the best location for waterfowl when the water is cleared on a calmed day. The key element here is foliage reflection, you can put mallard in there and makes cover. No gator, u can do belly work all morning... :)



#2, Soft morning light barely break in


#3, one of the still reflection, rare to come by


#4, checking me out?


#5, water color to die for...


#6, turtle and me.... that's with 2x at 1000mm


#7, this sum up one of the most colorful waterfowl next to the Mandarin duck


#8, kinda suck that's the only in flight capture i got in from the last 3 years.


#9, Just the way i remember it looked though the viewfinder.

[JohnT]

Colors are magnificent as are the images. I so much want to photograph one of these beauties.

[jeffkohn]

Stunning shots! I love the reflections and colors, and of course the ducks themselves are beautiful. Great compositions, too.

[mjdmike]

Beautiful work Daniel. #5 is exceptional. (actually, they ALL are...)

It's about time you started posting your birds again!

[corralup]

I wish my pictures look the way they do on my LCD Screen! Can you detect a little jealousy here? These are great.

[billbunton]

Gorgeous photos, Daniel! I love the composition on #6 with the turtle.

[ka5txl]

Daniel, Great shots I think I know what part of the lake you were at. I'm still carefull about laying down out there. I watched a cotton mouth cross east lawther one morning. Saw a jogger go over and try and give it a closer look.
I have a shot of your duck's brother, sister, cousin...

[jamesw]

Thanks for sharing these Daniel.

Cheers
James

[Jusselin]

#8 is awsome just because i know how hard it is to hit a moving target

[angiem357]

Daniel - these pictures made me drool. Beautiful. Wood ducks are my favorite duck to observe. I didn't see the information anywhere...what kind of lens were you using?

[lhdvies]

Thks forf the post Daniel! Really nice colors and reflections and comp and backgrounds and so on!! In other words these are just great in all respects!!!

[Tim T]

Incredible shots Daniel. Just stunning. It's good to have the master posting again.

[jfoureyes]

These are all tremendous! You don't post very often but when you do it's always well worth the wait to see your beautiful work. See you again in a few years?

[ldelacruz]

Daniel,
These are really nice images but I do prefer my photos to be slightly out of focus with just a bit of noise.

[DHaass]

Don't listen to Lonnie, he's just jealous. Colors, exposure, composition and focus are awesome. An exceptional series of shots Daniel.