Siberian Stone Chat Male

[ramesh anantharaman]

Canon EOS 40D, 500mm f/4 L IS, 1.4x t.c.

700mm, f/8, 1/320 sec, ISO 250.

One of the smaller winter visitors to Bangalore in south India.

[Colin Knight]

Well done! The foliage perfectly frames the bird, which is nice and sharp. There are a few dark spots on the face- too dark in my opinion. It also might take a little sharpening around the eye, and a bit cropped off the top.

Great stuff!

[Stu Bowie]

Ramesh, good look back pose, and very similar to our Stonechat.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Stunning image Ramesh. Beautiful pose and a killer BG with a very lovely composition. Fine work !!!!

[Ed Schneider]

Great pose, perch, sharpness and species. Beautiful composition. There does appear to be some blocked blacks just in front of the eye. Hope to see these birds one day, TFS!

[Don Lacy]

Nice pose and BG I think a little fill flash to open up the blacks under the eye and beak would have helped.

[Rohan Kamath]

I liked the pose here. Agree with points mentioned above. Only a small observation, there seems to be something very un-natural about the perch. It seems to be accidentally suspended(??)

-Rohan