Red Winged Blackbird

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8 replies

Posted by Richard Peters on March 29, 2009 at 2:03 PM

From my most recent trip to Florida. I've never seen one of these before so it must be the time of year as they were everywhere this trip. I'd have loved to get one flying as they looked amazing in flight, but alas it wasn't to be!

D300 with 200-400 + 1.4x

Posted by Craig Jones on March 29, 2009 at 2:20 PM

Lovely photo, and the colours on this bird are beautiful, good light and comp, well done richard

Posted by Drew Mellowship on March 29, 2009 at 2:25 PM

Excellent execution Richard, as Craig said great colours and comp. I can imagine they must look quite fascinating in flight !

Drew

Posted by David Sewell on March 29, 2009 at 2:30 PM

I always remember these for the noise, and for the difficulty in getting any feather detail in those blacks. You have done well here.

David

Posted by Fran French on March 29, 2009 at 2:44 PM

I too remember these chaps, but never got the photo. Superb colour and detail in this, very nice.

Fran

Posted by Brian Davis on March 29, 2009 at 4:38 PM

Lovely chap, why can't we have colourful blackbirds like this in addition to our own.

Posted by Rob Howard on March 29, 2009 at 5:09 PM

Hi Richard,

Lovely looking bird, very colourful! Dont suppose you saw them doing this: http://iwishicouldfly.com/iwishicouldfly/journal/html/053007.htm

Pretty amazing behaviour!!

Regards

Rob

Posted by PhilH on March 30, 2009 at 4:12 AM

Nice... you seem to have held the detail well in the blacks (difficult to tell at web size), I might try and get rid of the two brighter OOF highlights on the very left of the frame as I find they draw my eye a bit but that is not major.....

Posted by Dawn Monrose on March 30, 2009 at 6:23 AM

Lovely shot, good composition, interesting bird!