Kingfisher (alcedo atthis)

[Marko Matesic]

Every time I find these guys they amaze me with colors and behavior.....beautiful bird....
Photographed at Sabljaci lake(Croatia)
Cropped slightly to move the bird right .

20D+ 100-400 ....f/8, 1/30 s, ISO 400, -0.67 eV, bean bag on floating hide

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/3305/mg336401wz8.jpg


Kind regards.
Marko

[Shaoqing He]

What a portrait of this bird.

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

Gorgeous colors Marko. I love the pose. The silhouette looks weird for me. especially at the tail.
I may would decrease the sharpening.
Szimi

[Arsdel Fluesmeier]

Very welldone, great detail. Colors are great.

[Marko Matesic]

thx guys :)
Gyorgy ....yes when I look it now it looks weird ....probably new sharpening plug in is not best solution ;) ........
Back to good old USM ........thx for looking and advice
Kind regards

[Ian Colley]

fantastic colours, I agee that the sharpening may be a little overdone. Maybe clone out the bright spots and the branch on the right in the background.

[IvoZafirov]

Bravo Marko! Fantastic shot!

[Glenn Bartley]

Very nice image. I would actually add a bit more back on to the right and take some off the top.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

I really like the colors the details and BG!!!
My only nit it`s to clone the branch on the right
but it`s only my opinion!