It's always nice when you get an opportunity at a nice, mature Roseate Spoonbill. Their colors are far deeper than the younger ones, and they have that nice black collar, the yellow shoulders, and the alomost-red pink on the wings (not to mention, that nice wrinkled bill and bald head!). Most folks don't get a chance to shoot these nice mature ones very often. The younger, whiter, less colorful ones are far more common. It's almost guaranteed that when I submit these for review to the various stock agencies, they will initially be rejected for being "over saturated" or "over filtered". I ALWAYS have to explain that this is just how they are, and then they accept them after the explanation. Their inspectors are never used to seeing the ones like this.

Now for the pop quiz: Which image (or images) were shot with the 2x Teleconverter, and which weren't?

No cheating - Look at the EXIF only after you've looked with your eyes first. I'll post the EXIF data on each shot later for those who don't have an EXIF viewer handy. Enjoy!