This little fella links his reflection with a drop of water from its beak.

Canon 7D with the 500L f4 lens plus a 1.4 II Extender handheld @ 1/1000, f5.6, ISO 400, + 1/3 exposure compensation.

The low late afternoon setting sun gives nice contrasty lighting. Cropped for a 12 x 16 frame, horizon straightened, a whole bunch of annoying white reflection circles clonned away, eye slightly dodged. Background despeckled after sharpening.

Cheers,

Mike

A good friend commented privately that he had a preference for a more leveling of the water.
This was one of three options that I had when I leveled the image to begin with (I did take this image with a heavy lens lying down flat on the ground).
I could level based on the water, based on the line of yellowish vegetation, or crop in to eliminate the reflection and have the yellowish vegetation for the base of the image.

I opted for the second option – and even there, the leveling could have been a touch better. Even so, because the levels of the water and vegetation are not parallel, it’s a no-win situation.

As a fourth option, I suppose I could have applied some Photoshop skewing transformation technique to render both lines parallel.

Cheers,
Mike