Bee-eater backside view.

[Tom van den Brandt]

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One more Bee-eater, this time from the back. They are IMO one of the most beautiful birds of Europe.
Cropped from horizontal to vertical composition.

Canon 1D Mark IV
Canon 500mm
Iso 500
F 8
1/500sec

[Randy Stout]

Tom:

They are beautiful indeed, and well captured here. Nice look back pose, prey, soft background, well scaled perch on diagonal, all good.

Good call on the cropping.

Cheers

Randy

[Ashley Cohen]

Fantastic capture. think you got it all right imo.

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Excellent image Tom, I like the comp, the colours and the HA.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Great image, Tom. I will agree with you, how strikingly beautiful this bird is. IQ is all there and then some.



Geoffrey

[Gerald Kelberg]

The striking colours of the plumage and the nice detail work well against that nice soft background.

Lovely image - well executed.

Gerald

[Daniel Cadieux]

Fantastic colours, details, and a very good well-balanced composition. The back view really shows this individual well. Prey item is of course a wonderful bonus. Head angle is OK, but having it a few degrees more towards us would have taken this even higher.

[Jim Crosswell]

Another beauty Tom! I like the pose, catch, IQ, exposure, clean BG and composition. Great series.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Tom, great view here, and once again, you have brought out the colours and exposure so well. His catch a bonus - when has any bee-eater not got something in their beaks. :w3

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Superb image!
Love the nice light, colours and the insect is an added bonus.

[Enrique Patino]

simply beautiful. tfs

[Binu John]

Great shot! Excellent pose, colors, exposure, BG and composition! TFS

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful and colorful image.