Baltimore Oriole & Butterfly

[Alan Murphy]

Baltimore Oriole

Upper Texas Coast

D3, 600, ISO 500, f10, 1/1000, -0.3 EV.

Due to great weather systems, we are in the middle of the best bird migration on the Texas coast since the 1980's. Lot's of birds and good light. This is one of the more common species being photographed at my drip right now,(Warbler images coming later ;-) but I thought the Butterfly added a little drama. Any dead bugs or butterflys that I find, are placed on the perches as on offering.

[Paul Kusmin]

Really nice shot Alan, what a moment getting the bird with butterfly like that, congrats!

[Gary Esman]

Superb as always, fantastic shot! Love the matching colors.

[Aidan Briggs]

Perfect profile pose, nice light, and a nice perch. The butterfly (probably a Painted Lady) adds to it.

[Gal Shon]

This is as good as it gets...
What I like the most is the use of f10. the butterfly and head to tail sharpness is outstanding.

[Morkel Erasmus]

such great clarity, exposure and details. did you fire flash?

[Troy Lim]

Alan, love the exposure, sharpness and BG.
Do you always try to shoot f/10 around small bird like this? Also, did you use flash at all?

[Alfredo Fernández]

wooww alan ,
your images are just too much.
love the butterfly
cheers.

[Danny Laredo]

This is just outstanding Alan. Fantastic capture with excellent detail.

[Joe Senzatimore]

How sweet is this???? Perfect combination of color,detail and BG. Perch ain't bad either.

[Karl Egressy]

Love the matching colors of the Butterfly.
Of course the rest of the picture is gorgeous as well.

[Bryan Hix]

Wonderful as usual and the butterfly puts it over the top. Sometimes I wish I lived in TX. ;)

[Ofer Levy]

Too good.:eek:

[Alan Murphy]

Alan, love the exposure, sharpness and BG.
Do you always try to shoot f/10 around small bird like this? Also, did you use flash at all?

Hey Troy,

No flash on this shot. F10 is needed to get the bill tip to tail in sharp focus. I had the shutter speed to do it. Thanks.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Looks to me like he was in your drip bath right before with the water drops sprinkled on him. Love the matching butterfly!

[Colin Knight]

Very well done. A real pleasure to look at!

[Markus Jais]

Awesome! The butterfly really is great!

Markus

[arash_hazeghi]

This is simply gorgeous, polished to perfection!