First, since it’s the holiday season, I need to post that, if in the US, the last day to order and have it arrive in time for Christmas is December 9th.  If you’re outside the US, then any orders will probably not arrive before December 25th at this point.  This image was taken last week and shows a wood duck hen as she flapped her wings after preening.  I saw she was about to do this and, since I had a 500mm lens on my camera at the time, thought to myself that I have way too much lens for this moment.  But it worked out great!  I focused on her head so as to have her eyes in focus, a critical focal point for wildlife images, and let the rest of the image fall where it did.  I might have preferred a little more depth of field so her wings were in focus too, but then the shutterspeed would have been too slow and they would have blurred anyway.  While the drake may have been more colorful, I was still happy to capture this girl flexing her wings.