Kestrel

[Ad Postma]

Kestrel in early morning light. 20D 500f4+1.4 f5.6 1/100 ISO200

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Welcome to BPN!
I really like the composition,details and BG,nice work Ad

[Mike Milicia]

Beautiful bird, gorgeous light, sharp detail, and very nice bg !

A bit tight at top and bottom for my taste.

[Lance Warley]

Welcome, Ad.

Great first post.

The bg and the green moss complement the bird beautifully.

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

Very nice and clear image with lovely bg. Looks like it's been posted to the wrong forum as there is a human element included in the frame :)
Of course this doesn't decrease the value of the image. Excellent first post :) Welcome here.
Szimi

[Nikolay Staykov - shotlandetsa]

Welcome Ad Postma (http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/member.php?u=1116)!

Lovely light, pose and BG! The bird is so splendid!
the colors and sharpnes are spot on my HW calibrated monitor.

Good job at f5.6 and 1/100s!

[Philip Pietri]

Excellent first post. I love the background color - your subject and its perch stand out wonderfully. A vertical crop might have been nice on this particular image but other than that it's a gorgeous shot.

[Steve Maxson]

A stunning image! I like everything about this one. I like the horizontal crop, but a vertical crop would also work well with this image.

[Jody Melanson]

Wow! Beautiful light, pose, perch and BG. Awesome first post, welcome to BPN. My only nit would be it isn't mine. :)

[Maxis Gamez]

Hi Ad,

oh man... this is very nice. Love the pose and clean BG. The looks is priceless! Excellent work!

[paul leverington]

Sweet. I'd like to seewhat a vertical crop would do for this.