Red Throated Beeeater

Gallery: AvianPosted April 25, 201396 views9 comments

I have hardly ever seen this bird before let alone managed to get a reasonable image. This was taken from a drifting boat on the Victoria Nile on our way to visit Murchison Falls, Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda

EOS 1DX
500mm F4 MkII
1/1250
F5.6
ISO 800
EV-0.33
Hand-held

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Hans Overduin on April 25, 2013 at 4:01 AM

This is one of the finest shots I have seen from this species, mainly due to the BG - which is so different from the clean backgrounds we usually get to see. Hats of !

, hans

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Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on April 25, 2013 at 7:22 AM

Really nice Ken. Have never seen this bird before.

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Comment posted by Martin Dunn on April 25, 2013 at 8:12 AM

Bee eaters are gorgeous and this one is no exception. I've never seen one close up so this photo is very welcome. Great colours and a good out of focus but complimentary background. Nice one Ken.

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on April 25, 2013 at 12:42 PM

Very beautiful bird - nice pose, detail, and very sweet BG.
Would a vertical crop work here? Maybe you didn't have the room on top.

Sandy

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Comment posted by Jim Hackley on April 25, 2013 at 12:53 PM

Wonderful color scheme of a bird I have never heard of. Amazing diversity and colors of the birds you have been posting, way to go.

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Comment posted by Mike Ramy on April 25, 2013 at 1:31 PM

I like this one Ken,
Colors and detail look great.

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Comment posted by Claude Dagenais on April 25, 2013 at 6:47 PM

Very nice, love the background, the colors and the details.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on April 25, 2013 at 10:46 PM

Beautiful, Ken. Wonderful colors and you have nice detail in the bird with enough dof to provide structure in the bg.

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on April 26, 2013 at 1:56 AM

Thanks everybody for your kind comments, which are much appreciated.

Sandy,
I much prefer landscape crops and given that the BG worked out quite well I thought I would leave it in the original format albeit the crop is just below 50% of original size, so a vertical would be possible, I will take loook.

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