Kestrel

This guy was hunting insects on the floor, and kept interchanging between this post and the roadway. At one point he ran towards me, stopping about 5 metres away. I couldn’t get him in the frame with the 600mm., as he was too close. This shot was chosen because I liked the diffuse bg, and it looked much cleaner than the road.

All C&C welcome.

Nikon D300 with 600/F4. 1/100th sec. F7.1, ISO 400. EV 0. FF and HH from the window of the van.

Yes I'll go with that. Great background too.
Always one of my favourite poses -three quarter back on.- not always easy.
Plenty of space up to for writing maybe ??
JohnR

Brilliant shot, great to see the detail in the feathers. I wish I could get the close...


liam.

Lovely image Mike and nothing wrong with this beauty IMO,love the layered colours of the BG and the detail is very good,lovely image

It is a beautiful shot, a lovely pose too.

Lovely shot Mike. Maybe a bit less saturation. But that's just my personal taste.

Well done.

Edwin Kats

Nice one Mike, looks like you nailed it in the camera, reducing PP time and a cleaner file. Agree with Edwin about the saturation, as the green goes look a tight bright

Steve

Good all round image Mike.

Major.

Cracking shot Mike really like this one.

Danny

Great feel to this shot Mike - the bird is just doing what it does. Cracking.

Cheers,
Chris

Hi Mike - one of the best shots I've seen from you on here

Nice pose, light, background composition and processing.



Mark

Beautiful shot Mike. Great detail and BG.

Hi Mike


nice pose and background

Great image, I really like that pose.

David

Thanks for all the kind comments folks.

I guess I may as well pack up photography now - I can't see me getting higher praise than this in the future.