Avian - 1st Place

Gallery: EPA 2015Posted April 21, 20157,101 views24 comments

A Touch of Yellow

Howard Cheek requested a Skylark in a tulip field. I went and looked, but alas, came home with a Wagtail, hope that's okay as well enlightened . And for those that deteste 'yellow' : sorry......

Nikon @ 700mm | 1/1600s | f8 | ISO280 | underexposed 2/3EV | handheld

Thanks for viewing and have a wonderful day crying

Comments

24 comments

Comment posted by Howard Cheek on April 21, 2015 at 11:01 AM

How cool is this! laugh Unique image Hans, the bird shares the frame with these tulips handsomely.

Excellent presentation, I have absolutely no problem with yellow BTW enlightened

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on April 21, 2015 at 11:19 AM

Beautiful, Hans. perfect placement of the bird and you've given me some new ideas on shooting fields of flowers.

devil

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Comment posted by Keith Bauer on April 21, 2015 at 11:30 AM

Very unique image. I like the overall image as presented.

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Comment posted by Roel Wijtmans on April 21, 2015 at 12:59 PM

This is really well executed! Very simple and elegant.

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Comment posted by Jefferson Silva on April 21, 2015 at 1:07 PM

This is nice, Hans. Very nice composition. I liked it!

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Comment posted by Buck Ward on April 21, 2015 at 4:29 PM

Outstanding.

The field of tulips is a nice picture. And then you gave it that narrow depth of field - added marvelous character. And then you coaxed that bird to come and pose for you. I'm blown away!

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Comment posted by Steve Thompson on April 21, 2015 at 4:50 PM

Love the whole look of this Hans. Well executed, beautiful image.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on April 21, 2015 at 9:23 PM

Beautiful and very different image Hans, I like the selective depth of field a lot here. devil

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Comment posted by John Launstein on April 22, 2015 at 4:53 AM

Well, Hans, you've done it again. Just when I think you can't produce anything better than your last, you drop something like this on us. I don't mean to take the easy way out, but "what everone else said" is probably about right. Stunner. #inspired sad

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Comment posted by Hisham Atallah on April 22, 2015 at 9:15 AM

Lovely Hans. You make the OOF foreground really work. Very unique result!

Cheers,

Hisham.

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on April 22, 2015 at 9:57 PM

I really dig this one Hans. Nicely presented no nits from me. Nice work!!! devil

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Comment posted by Brian Gatlin on April 22, 2015 at 11:29 PM

fantastic, Hans. love this. as soon as I saw the thumbnail I knew it was yours.

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on April 23, 2015 at 3:12 AM

Great bird in an awesome setting, although the bird is not very big in the frame he is certainly a very strong part of the image.

Excellent Work Hans!

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Comment posted by Greg Oakley on April 24, 2015 at 4:07 AM

Wow - this is one of the best bird-in-habitat images I have seen for a long time - great image

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Comment posted by Rob Drummond on April 24, 2015 at 5:20 AM

Stunning Hans - lucky yellow is my favourite colour

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Comment posted by Stephen Kaluski on April 25, 2015 at 10:51 AM

A bit late to the party Hans, 'GORGEOUS'

TFS
Steve devil

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Comment posted by Mike Ramy on April 26, 2015 at 9:16 PM

Very laugh Hans !

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on May 10, 2015 at 9:43 PM

Hans: Not bad for a Flora image enlightened ! Wonderful effect from the long lens narrow DOF. Congrats on the WP and a superb capture. >=))>

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on May 11, 2015 at 5:59 AM

Hans,

This will teach me to go on safari!

STUPENDOUS devil devil devil

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Comment posted by Ray Whitt on May 11, 2015 at 10:50 PM

Just beautiful, congratulations on this, well deserved!

Ray

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Comment posted by Soubhik Patranabis on May 18, 2015 at 12:46 AM

Excellent !!

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Comment posted by Ron Dudley on January 10, 2016 at 3:57 PM

Big congrats, Hans. What a lovely image!

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on January 10, 2016 at 4:06 PM

Hans: I liked it when I first saw it and like it even more now. Congrats on a well deserved EPA. >=))>

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Comment posted by Cay-Uwe Kulzer on January 11, 2016 at 2:36 AM

Hans,

CONGRATULATIONS on the EPA devil

I like that this type of image still has the power to be honored since I am observing more and more that it seems that only "action photos" is what is counting nowadays. For me this image is thru photgraphy art.

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