Bob-white Quail
by Dennis Plank
Since the challenge description specifically mentioned this species, I thought someone should post it. This one is from Falcon State Park in Texas where they're pretty common visitors to the bird feed people throw out in their campsites. I had some neighbors who had forgotten to pick up bird feed and all they had were some corn chip crumbs-oddly the birds flocked to their site much more readily than most and this image was taken from their picnic table. I would have liked a lower angle, but I thought it would be a bit rude to ignore my hosts and drop to the ground to get a better shot. Now if they'd been photographers....
7D2, 300mm f4 ISl + 1.4TC, hand held, f/5.6, 1/800, iso 800, aperture priority, center-weighted average metering. Processed in LR5 & CS6. Cropped to 14.8 Mpixels.
Comments and criticisms are appreciated.
Thanks,
Comments
5 commentsFine detail in the bird and I like the addition of the flower in the background.
Albert Darmo
Canada