Collared Aracari

[Doug Brown]

Aracaris and Toucans exhibit very similar behavior when landing on a perch and getting ready to feed. They crane their necks and move their heads slowly back and forth for a good 30-60 seconds before starting to eat. It's a very helpful window of time when trying to photograph them. And the poses can be really cool!

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Canon 1D Mark IV, 400mm, f/7.1, 1/500, ISO 500, manual exposure, fill flash, tripod

[Ilija Dukovski]

Very cool, love the pose. Great perch and comp.

[Herb Houghton]

I love the colors, pose and perch. Details are excellent and the BKGD is sweet too.

Herb

www.herbhoughton.com

[Indranil Sircar]

Beautiful bird. Love those colors and pose with that perch. Excellent exposure and details.

[Don Lacy]

lovely colors Dan and I like the diagonal perch running thru the frame.

[Dan Brown]

Awesome Doug! Love the pose:eek: Great sharpness, exposure, BG, eye contact and perch! Did I mention that I LOVE THE POSE!:bg3:

[Dave Leroy]

Very nice pose and I like the inclusion of the bottom part of perch. It adds a nice counterweight to bird on top.

I also like the nice use of flash with a tough bird to expose for.

Dave

[Greg Basco]

Hey, Doug. Agree with the others -- really nice job catching this pose and exposing well. I love the dark green, mottled background. And I second Dave on the lower part of the perch -- glad we picked that branch as we knew it would add some interest to the compositions. You employed it well here.

Cheers,
Greg Basco

[Bryan Hix]

Great species Doug. I never got to see one on a clean perch. Love the nice sharp eye. :cheers:

[Pieter de Waal]

I am enjoying this series Doug, birds I don't get to see. Again I like the way you have brought out all the colours in this one, with a very interest(ed)ing pose. Ditto the other comments above.

[Stephen Stephen]

Beautiful image Doug. Nice pose perch and BG combination.

I love these birds but the ones that I saw in Costa Rica stayed high up in the trees.

[Jim Crosswell]

Incredible image Doug! I like the sharpness, details, perch and BG.

[James Salywoda]

Gorgeous!!! Beautiful bird nice pose and excellent detail.

[RakeshDhareshwar]

Great use of flash here ! One heck of a brilliant frame .

[Harshad Barve]

I am enjoying this series , Top class images
TFS

[Nico Steenberg]

super pose and detail captured. Like that eye :eek: IMG is sharp and well exposed with a killer bg :S3:

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

What a bird...and what a pose. Excellent. Liked the composition a lot too. BG is awesome.

[Doug Brown]

I'm glad you're all enjoying the images from my Costa Rica workshop with Greg Basco! We had a great time!

[Kiran Poonacha]

What Beauty Doug Bhai... great stuff this... TFS