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One bird on a stick

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Posted by John Robinson on July 2, 2010 at 12:15 PM
One bird on a stick
Sand Martin. (young )
Very late evening sun. Background colour is dying coltsfoot leaves on the bank. My personal favourite of the martins this year so far.
D200
Sigma 50-500
500 ISO
F8
180th second
About 50 of full frame.
Cheers
JR
Posted by Craig Jones on July 2, 2010 at 12:21 PM
Beautiful,best of all :wink: :wink: love the pose,composition,catchlight,beautiful close up John :wink: :wink: :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Bertl Menegoni on July 2, 2010 at 1:37 PM
No boring coments from me John,
its a cracker :smile:
Bertl
Posted by Brian Davis on July 2, 2010 at 1:50 PM
Lovely John, well done. :toast:
Posted by Shaun Simpson on July 2, 2010 at 1:53 PM
Excellent john well done :toast:
Posted by keith mitchell on July 2, 2010 at 2:11 PM
Looks nice to me John.

Mitch
Posted by John Robinson on July 2, 2010 at 2:12 PM
Thanks all.
Its not pin sharp but theres not a lot you can do at that time in the evening and with the reed bobbing up and down. Its certainly an unusual image for me.
Cheers
JR
Posted by Phil Mclean on July 2, 2010 at 3:26 PM
Beautiful softness to the plumage and I love the background.

Phil. :toast: :toast:
Posted by Karen Summers on July 2, 2010 at 3:30 PM
love this one the eyes are beautiful
Posted by PhilH on July 2, 2010 at 4:01 PM
John.... as you say, not 'pin' sharp, but what an endearing little subject... wonderful...

:toast: :wavey: :toast:
Posted by Guy Rogers on July 2, 2010 at 4:56 PM
Hello John.

Love it and those eyes are something else.

This put a smile on my face when it opened.

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:
Posted by David Kjaer on July 2, 2010 at 6:49 PM
Beautiful John.

David :toast: :toast:
Posted by Dale Sutton on July 3, 2010 at 1:59 AM
A nice clean and simple shot , like it alot.

Dale :toast: :toast:
Posted by Frederic Desmette on July 3, 2010 at 3:34 AM
lovely picture John...
Frederic
Posted by John Robinson on July 3, 2010 at 4:47 AM
Thanks again.
I've just worked it out and its 40 % of the full framewhich was landscape.
A bigger crop than I thought.!
Cheers
JohnR
Posted by Graham Goddard on July 3, 2010 at 9:03 AM
All has been said John - a super image with a glorious bg. :toast: :toast: