Western Meadowlark

[Mike Milicia]

EOS-1D Mk III, 500mm f/4 + 1.4xII, 1/2000, f/5.6, ISO 400
Manual exposure using incident meter
Full Frame

My recent trip to the Burns / Malheur NWR area in southeast Oregon yielded many
images with "Hand of Man", mostly in the form of posts and barbed wire.
Here's another one captured about an hour before sunset.

Photographed from car using BLUBB.

Looking forward to your comments and critiques !
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[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Wonderful lighting and a great singing pose Mike. Really like the clean BG too. Thanks for sharing.

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Mike,
I like your subject and the composition. For my taste, I would desaturate the yellow hues on the bird...:cool:

[Mike Milicia]

For my taste, I would desaturate the yellow hues on the bird...:cool:

Thanks for the feedback, Gus.
The yellows were indeed quite intense and they are already desaturated at -4.
Guess I was maybe a bit too timid not wanting to lose the vibrancy.
Should probably reduce them a few more points.

[Lana Hays]

Mike
Love to see and hear those guys singing. When you get these guys in that late sun they just glow.......that's sure what I've seen. I like the old fence posts and even barbed wire.......reminds me of growing up on a farm and seeing all the birds. Well composed......and nice job getting it full frame.

[carole wiley]

Perfect, perfect, perfect. Great light and the exposure is right on

[Blake Shadle]

Awesome work, Mike. I love the pose and background of this image. Well done! I might pull some Yellow out of the yellows in a selective color adjustment layer ;)

[Grady Weed]

Blake beat me to the yellow nits. But all in all, great. Close, fine details, open beak which I love.