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Alfred Forns
02-20-2010, 01:45 PM
Congratulations Stuart Bowie
Pintailed Wydah

I left my house at 4.00am yesterday morning with some photographic mates, to go to a wetland area, 110km away, for the sole purpose of capturing various species of birdlife and an assortment of ducks. When we left, the sky above us was cloudless and full of stars. When we arrived at the wetlands an hour later, the clouds came in and turned out to be a very overcast day. Well we didnt see a single duck, but instead decided to walk around the grassland behind the hide. This guy gave us a show for a while, chasing a female around the grasses. As the light wasnt great, I had to shoot with a high ISO to get ss. These guys are actually very small, and with all the grasses and flowers, it played havoc with the AF, to try and lock onto him. They also fly very erratically. This was actually a take off shot from one of the flowers.

Canon 50D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/2000
F/5.6
ISO 800

Exp Comp +0.33
Hand Held

Steve Canuel
02-20-2010, 01:46 PM
Congrats Stuart!

Jay Gould
02-20-2010, 03:26 PM
An accolade we all strive for; an accolade well deserved - congrats!

The plant nicely sets the scene; especially with the tail draped over the back.

Axel Hildebrandt
02-20-2010, 03:37 PM
Congratulations, Stuart! Well deserved.

denise ippolito
02-20-2010, 08:13 PM
Beautifully done. Congratulations, Stuart! Well deserved. :)

Fabs Forns
02-20-2010, 08:59 PM
Proud of you, Stu, great work!!!

Harshad Barve
02-20-2010, 09:16 PM
Congratulations Stuartbhai

Oscar Zangroniz
02-21-2010, 09:24 AM
Big time congrats, well deserved.:)

Vida van der Walt
02-21-2010, 09:38 AM
Big congrats Stu! Beautiful image and well deserved.:)

Christopher Miller
02-21-2010, 11:14 AM
Big congrats, Stuart! :)

Grace Scalzo
02-21-2010, 06:58 PM
Congrats, Stuart. What a fantastic image.

Nate Chappell
02-21-2010, 07:57 PM
Congrats Stuart, great image!:cool:

Dave Barnes
02-22-2010, 12:33 AM
Congrats Stu.

Stephen Earle
02-22-2010, 04:03 AM
Congrats Stu! Exceptional and rare photo of these guys.

Butch Robertson
02-22-2010, 07:06 AM
Well done Stuart. You make us proud

Manos Papadomanolakis
02-22-2010, 10:36 AM
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif Avian IOTW 1/22/10 Stuart Bowie
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Congratulations Stuart!!!

Stu Bowie
02-22-2010, 12:00 PM
Thank you to BPN for the recognition, and thank you all so much for the kind words.

Austin Thomas
02-22-2010, 01:38 PM
Well done Stuart,

Excellent image.

Cheers

Austin

Indranil Sircar
02-22-2010, 10:45 PM
Congratulations, Stuart. Excellent image and composition.

Kaustubh Deshpande
02-23-2010, 05:29 PM
Congrats Stuart. a deserving image for sure.

Hazel Grant
02-23-2010, 11:45 PM
well deserved. frozen action. great focus.---both by you and by the bird on where he's headed. You've captured his "mission"

arash_hazeghi
02-24-2010, 03:09 AM
Congrats, really nice photo, wish it was mine!

Doug Brown
02-24-2010, 01:15 PM
Way to go Stuart! Awesome photo! Good to see you finally join the IOTW ranks!

Stu Bowie
02-25-2010, 01:06 AM
Once again, thank you all for the recognition.

Doug, this was a total surprise, and hopefully It will continue.

Morkel Erasmus
02-25-2010, 01:35 PM
missed this one - splendid capture indeed mate!! well deserved...

Rich Steel
02-25-2010, 02:22 PM
Congratulations Stuart , stunning photo of beautiful bird.

Cheers

Rich

Tony Whitehead
02-25-2010, 07:18 PM
Congratulations, Stuart - well deserved.

Jim Crosswell
02-26-2010, 04:52 PM
Congratulations!

Stu Bowie
02-27-2010, 06:26 AM
Thank you all so much for the recognition.