Brown Songlark #2

[Rob Drummond]

Here's another shot of the male songlark just before he took off. Some commented on its long legs in the previous post. Brown Songlarks are a ground dwelling species of grasslands and, these days, cropping areas. They are related to the Old world Warblers.

1D2N 500/f4 1.4X
ISO 400 f8 1/2000

cheers
Rob

[Grace Scalzo]

Rob, This is a bird that I have never seen before your image. Your presentation is beautiful with the smooth complimentary background, nice perch and subtle inclusion of the grass blades. Plus the bird and his take off pose is fun.

[Ofer Levy]

Sweet image!! The awesome pose makes the image for me. Maybe a bit off the top.

[arash_hazeghi]

Amazing portrait, full spring-off position right before flight! techs are spot on. TFS

[Kim Rollins]

Rob

Well done on this capture and in fact exceptional IMO.

[Duane Noblick]

I love the alert stance and the eye contact in this image. The oof blades of grass adds to this image now knowing where it tends to lurk.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the angle, pose, sharpness, BG and eye contact and might try to lighten the chest area that is not sunlit.

[denise ippolito]

Rob, Very cool looking bird. I like the comp. and the pose very much. The BG is great. I like the tail up. Very nicely done. TFS the additional info on the species.

[Phil Ertel]

Hi Rob, I have enjoyed your image and the information you shared. I like the pose and eye contact. I find the simple background and colors to be very pleasing. The hint of environment/habitat that the out of focus grass provide adds a lot to the image. I agree with Ofer on taking a little off the top and with Axel on attempting to lightening the shadowed areas of the birds breast.

[Gerard Satherley]

Wonderful image Rob. I like the alert pose and background.

[Harshad Barve]

Excellent image with great pose and killer BG
TFS

[Nagesh Mula]

Rob, very good image of this bird and the clean BKGR just compliments it.