Snipe .

Nikon D200
Sigms 50-500
1/160@f8
iso 200.
C&C please.

Hi Keith - the bird is superb, beautifully detailed and pin sharp. Love the pose too. There are a few funny marks on the bottom rhs - was something cloned out - but it is such a tiny nit.

Great advert for the Sigma! Nice bokeh superb pose.

Excellent portrait. Assuming this is a full height crop from a landscape format image, I think I would have cropped it so that it retained a 3x2 format, removing some of the green background at the top and thus moving the eye to a higher position in the frame. I would also have tried to move the eye off-centre to the right creating some additional space to the left.

Nits covered, you've captured a great pose here Keith
Well done.

Geoff.

That's a beauty. I agree with Phil re the crop, but everything that counts is right and you can always recrop if and when it suits you.
eric

A great pose for one of these I only see them hidden away in habitat very good

Top shot Keith, and a nice perch too. The DOF is spot on A bit central as presented for my taste though but easily remedied.

What a stunner Keith

fabulous shot

Ron

Excellent Keith

Not often you see one out in the open let alone on a post

I take it you've taken this through foreground grasses. Nice capture though. Agree with the comments reference the crop, but overall really good.

Ian

Thanks for looking and your comments i will take more care with my cropping but good advice i will take on board.
Ian i took this from my car window i can see what you mean but i think it's just the bg.
Keith.

Thats a very nice image indeed, I think the color of the BG really offsets the image well. Phils suggestion of a crop would make it a good commercial image.