Hooded Merganser, by Mick Johnson
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Today, our featured photographer on the DPNow Picture of the Day is a photographer registered on the DPNow forum and galleries as Mick Johnson. It's not the first time Mick has been featured on the DPNow POTD. You may remember his striking capture of a British Superbike racer last December. Here, Mick has used the same fast 300mm f/2.8 lens to produce this much more sedate subject, an exotic member of the water fowl community.
Mick explains: "The Hooded Merganser was taken at a local pool at the JCB factory in Rocester. I quite like low angle shot's for ducks, etc. and so was on my knees for this one. It was taken with a 300mm f2.8 @ f5.6. 1/640 sec."
I picked this for POTD because it's a very good quality wildlife shot to start with, but the breed of bird is also very striking and it has an attractive pose.
Would you like one of your pictures featured on DPNow's POTD?
We are always on the look out for great pictures posted to the user-galleries here on DPNow. POTDs are selected from the gallery and featured every week day. The gallery facility here is completely free; all you need to do is register as a user on our discussion forum and you will get an automatic 25MB of space, which is good for around 125 pictures uploaded at web resolution, about 200K per picture. At the time of writing we had just over10,000 pictures on the galleries and it's well worth a browse.
Picture of the month
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The DPNow Golden Gallery
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