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Stone curlew

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Posted by Stephen Kaluski on August 17, 2008 at 4:15 AM
Stone curlew
I could not help, but be drawn to this fantastic eye. Very well camouflaged!

Steve
MKIII 500 1/200 f7.1 ISO4oo
Posted by Bertl Menegoni on August 17, 2008 at 5:42 AM
Stunning, Steve. Very hard to see in its environment I think.
Only by luck.
Greetings,
Bertl
Posted by keith mitchell on August 17, 2008 at 7:11 AM
Steve i bet it was difficult to get this bird,see what you mean about the eye,great shot.
Posted by Paul Gibbs on August 17, 2008 at 8:51 AM
Very nice shot, unusual to see one near leaves, only ever seen them in big featureless fields. The eye really draws you in.
Posted by PhilH on August 17, 2008 at 1:17 PM
An interesting image of a very hard to photograph bird, which for me doesn't quite work, mainly because it is facing and looking away from you with the large part of the bird being OOF... looking at the image it would appear that you could have focused more to the front and still retained the eye in focus....

All that said its still better than anything I have of this species.

All the best

:toast: :wavey: :toast:
Posted by Magnus Hird on August 18, 2008 at 3:41 PM
A very different viewpoint! See what you mean about the eye! Well done for seeing it in the first place too! :smile: