The Angel Pose

[Jan Saunders]

A Little Bee-eater

Canon 1DX
800mm
ISO 800
AV at f8
1/2000 ss

[Kirk Benson]

Wow! This is sure pretty Jan. The lovely light and killer good BG provide a terrific setting for this beautiful Bee-eater... great title too.
The pose (love the fanned tail), rich color, and clean detail all combine to make this a beautiful image.
Really fine work from capture to processing, and a pleasure to see. :S3:

[Raybel Robles]

Amazing stuff. Love the pose for sure! Lovely warm colors.

[Ian Wilson]

Great pose and light. Looks to be slightly front focussed, perhaps on the branch? Overall very pleasing image. Regards, Ian

[John Robinson]

A beautiful shot !
JohnR

[Derek_Lauzon]

Love this shot Jan, beautiful colors and great pose.

[William Dickson]

Fantastic Jan. The colours throughout the image are very pleasing to the eye. And, beautiful details on the bird. Great HA and pose. Yes very nice indeed. Well done Jan and thanks for sharing

[keith mitchell]

Love the almost pastel colours on this, birds display stands out very well against that nice smooth b/g,very nice indeed.

Keith.

[stuart wanuck]

well done matching bg

[Alison McCoy]

Beautiful image, great capture. Love the dynamic pose.

[Steve Smith]

That is a wonderful shot - the best capture of a bee eater that I have seen anywhere.

Steve Smith

[Jonathan Ashton]

Wonderful pose and colours. I feel you could get more detail in the breast feathers if you adjusted the brightest highlights, this could probably be done with Luminosity at the raw stage.

[Binu John]

Beautiful landing shot! Lovely pose and BG. Well done.

[gail bisson]

Great image with a terrific pose.
I would sharpen the breast feathers ever so slightly.
Well done,
Gail

[Bill Dix]

Perfect angel pose with great colors. I'm also thinking the critical focus may have been on the feet and branch; you might sharpen the head and breast just a tad. But a super image I would love to have captured.

[Robert Kimbrell]

Well done Jan. I would be so happy with this as is. The colors are ideal to my eye, a super pose , Very nice eye contact with this beautiful bird and complimentary background. I wish It were mine.