Cumberland River - Barkley Lock and Dam

Good crisp detail for a hand held 500 mm shot of a subject more than 1/2 mile away. Well done!

Blimey have to hand it to ya holding 500 lens so still, I'd have to use my tripod.

Note > Keep an eye on this thread, as I intend to add more photos of this trip as I get them ready.

This photo was taken from the same 1/2-mile distant spot as the previous two; only this time, EXIF says focal length of 373mm.

I did not know it at the time, but I caught three fish in the air; they have to be pretty big to show up so well.

Who knows, they may be the only fish to jump and this be the only time they ever jumped in their life; --- or, half-a-second before or after the shutter clicked, there could have been dozens of fish in the air.

There has to be lots of them due to the vast number of belly-up dead ones that go floating by, some of them almost as big as a car; or, maybe they are just momentarily stunned.

Speaking of fish, for the last few years, it has been in the news a lot, and there are informational signs posted all over these two lakes/dams, about an invasive species of Asiatic Carp that is taking over; I even read about a Department of Wildlife sponsored Carp hunt with a bounty.

You do not have to put Carp in a pond or lake, they will find a way to get there without human help; someone told me many years ago that their eggs will stick to bird's legs and transfer when a bird lands near a pond.

I do know that, way back in my childhood days, we had two decent-sized ponds on our farm, completely isolated by a long way from any other body of water.

We created the ponds where there had been none before; and, within a couple years, they were both infested with huge Carp.

Only poor starving people will try to eat a Carp; they taste like the nasty water that they live in; there is not a sauce nor a cooking method that will take that taste away.

I also caught some sort of unidentified bird in flight; maybe a rare sighting of a new species.

Also of note is the long slender tree limb, or maybe it is a sapling, that has gotten entangled in the framework of the floodgate.

I figure the limb was longer and got sheared to length when the gate closed.

What puzzles me is how the tree limb could have managed to get where it is in the first place; it is the back side of the dam; and, I cannot imagine what sort of high tide could possibly have ever washed it there, especially to become interlaced like it is.

I remember you talking about changing your screen resolution, I wonder if that is why your images look so big on your computer? They are not clickable on my computer.
Someone else might be better able to answer your question.

I size my images at 2048 on the longest side and usually use imgbb.
Check my image on the EP challenge. It is clickable for me.