Savannah Sparrow in song

[Bill Dix]

Here's a singing songbird from last fall. Cropped from horizontal.

D7000, 500f4 + 1.4, ISO 800, 1/2500s @ f/7.1 manual

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Beautiful capture, Bill. Nice light, BG and great perch including the the tall flowering stem.



Geoffrey

[Joseph Przybyla]

Nice one Bill, not nits from me. Thanks for sharing.

[Shawn Zierman]

Ah man, I could tell this one was the bees knees before I even opened it. Gorgeous image Bill. On goldenrod too! I'm jealous. The goldenrod heads give such a great sense of scale for this small sparrow. The composition while simple, is exquisite.....Great light quality, and very nice singing pose. A Cracker sir!

[Daniel Cadieux]

Excellent! I love the umbrella top of the perch. Ditto Shawn's remarks. Really well done.

[Karl Egressy]

Very unique picture with the good looking perch, Bill. Very well done.

[Grace Scalzo]

A striking image. I will keep this in mind as a good example of compositing for small in the frame subjects, not something that I'm good at. This is classic.

[dankearl]

Congrats on the IOTW! Bill..........

[arash_hazeghi]

love the pose, the light, the perch and the BG. I love the goldenrod that not only provides a scale to gauge the size of this delicate bird but also balances the composition perfectly. I wish it was in focus though, which is probably not possible in a single frame, some focus stacking would pay large dividends here

TFS

[David Salem]

Beautiful frame Bill. I really like the perch and it's placement in the frame. The colors and details look great too. Well done

[Satish Ranadive]

Gorgeous image, spectacular composition.
Rest as usual absolutely superb.
Love the frame,Bill Sir.

Regards,
Satish.

[William Dickson]

All been said Bill. Fantastic image. I love the colours throughout

Will

[Bill Dix]

Thank you all for looking, and for the kind words. Yes, Arash, focus stacking would have been just the ticket here.

[Ed Kelly]

Everything works here. Even the BG compliments the sparrow and the goldenrod.

Ed