Evening Grosbeak

[Francis Bossé]

Here a quote from my wife: "You're nuts" Because to create this image I had to leave home at 2h30 am with 2 hours sleep at -19C (-2F), drive 4 hours up north, dig my self a spot in 9 feet's of snow and wait 6 hours in my hide at -24C (-11F) and finally drive back home and thinking that I had forgot to eat...

For her I'm crazy but with a different perspective I'm just a other birds photographer... :D

Thanks for reading!

Camera Make: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Image Date: 2008:12:20 12:29:40
Flash Used: No
Focal Length: 500.0mm
CCD Width: 4.34mm
Exposure Time: 0.0010 s (1/1000)
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO equiv: 400
Exposure Bias: -0.33
White Balance: Manual
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Beautiful image, I like the light, setting, BG, pose and details. Well worth the effort, but then, maybe I'm nuts, too, and your wife is right. :)

[Doug Brown]

Stunning image. Great pose, perch, sharpness, and BG. Bleeding edge whites that are not blown and good detail in the darks. For sure I'm nuts too.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Really beautiful,I Iike the pose,details,perch and the bg!

[John Chardine]

I'm very impressed with the image Francis. It seems you have all the technical details such as composition, exposure, sharpness etc, spot on. I am also impressed that your camera batteries lasted for all that time in the blind!

Would be nice to see the exposure details.

[Fabs Forns]

Well worth the time and trouble, It's a jaw dropper kind of image :)

[Grace Scalzo]

Absoultely wonderful. Your efforts were worth it. I love the look back and the beautiful details.

[Nagesh Mula]

Its an Amazing picture Francis!! well worth the effort. Congratulations!!

[Mike Robinson]

Perfect! Love it.

[Simon Bennett]

Glorious image - everything is just perfect.

[Tony House]

Well worth the effort, superb looking bird nicely caught.

Tony

[Ramon M. Casares]

Terrific Shot, this one has to go straight to IOTW!!! Big congratualrions! Light, BG, popse, colors, detail, all is superb!

[Rene' Villela]

That is a beautiful shot! I just hope you had some hot coffee with you! :) Congats!

[Glenn Bartley]

Just fantastic! Only thing that would make it better for me is if the perch wasnt broken and extended through the image.

[Matthew Studebaker]

Incredible shot. Fantastic. I'd drive 20 hours for this. I love the light, perch, detail, colors - this one's got it all. PM sent