Brown-eared Bulbul

[gary rouleau]

While on the island of Cheju Korea at a conference i had not seen a bird in three maybe four days -not even a gull -and we were on the coast. On the fifth day, I saw out of the corner of my eye a blue flash (not one of those hippie day kind of things). I had no idea what it could have been but maybe a really big blue bug from another planet. It flew up a small estuary in the middle of this big city -so I followed what the heck it was break-time and only three minutes from the hotel. It turned out to be a beautiful little oasis for bird life. And the blue flash was a Euro-asian kingfisher, not just one but five. And all sorts of birds I never even heard of. I only had an afternoon free and could not get all the species there. I have to go back one day. Here is one of them the Brown-eared Bulbul.

Canon EOS 20D
Canon Lens (mm): 300mm f2.8 x1.4
ISO: 400
Aperture: 4
Shutter: 1/200
Exp. Comp.: 0.0
Program: Aperture Priority

[Fabs Forns]

Gary,

I did some work, cropped the left side, to get the bird off center. Desaturated and blurred the background a bit and ran a curve adjustment to lighten the bird.
There seems to be some blurring on the upper foot, that was present on your version.
Hope you like it!

[gary rouleau]

Looks great Fabs, thanks. Unfortunately the foot is out of focus.

[Steve Canuel]

Colorful BG and great detail. Never saw one of these before, handsome bird.

Steve

[Arthur Morris]

Wonderful bird, wonderful image, and great job on the repost by Fabs.

later and love, artie

[Jim Poor]

Very nice scruffy looking little fellow here. I liked the original and the repost takes it that much farther. I might also tone down the bright spot in the BH right off the tip of the bill.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

I really like the pose and the details,nice repost by Fabs!

[Gayle Clement]

I really love this one, Gary.

[gary rouleau]

I do as well Gayle, Fabs does have a good suggestion.
gary