White fronted Bee eater.

[Stu Bowie]

Another Bee eater from my series. I managed to create so many different images, and each and every one had a catch. Taken on a private farm last year.
Cleaned some white stuff off the perch, which is a root of a tree protruding from an embankment.
Canon 50D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/1600
F/6.3
ISO 640

Exp Comp +0.33
Hand Held

[Jay Gould]

Stuart, perfect HA for both the bird and the catch! :5

Lovely sharp colors and a perfectly matching background.

Av or Tv? I will guess Av to make sure you had the blurred BG; and you pushed the ISO to up the SS.

[Stu Bowie]

Av or Tv? I will guess Av to make sure you had the blurred BG; and you pushed the ISO to up the SS.

Thanks Jay. Aperture priority. The BE was separated from the BG, thus it being naturally OOF. Just ran NR on it.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Beautiful shot, perfect complimentary background. I would imagine a little bit of fill in flash would have enhanced the image even further.

[zethar zethar]

Wonderful shot. Love the composition and the colors. The BG colors compliment the bird so nicely!

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice! I like the vertical comp, the catch, and the awesome BG. Always great to have a good spot to photograph from...

[Dave McGowen]

Great shot, I love the composure and unique perch. The prey really adds to the photo.

[Doug Brown]

Super head angle, sharpness, and perch. Sounds like a fantastic spot!

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks a stack for the kind words. Always appreciated.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Gorgeous details, exposure, bg and crop. Prey kicks it up another notch.
Nice work Stuart.

[Roger Clark]

Adding to what everyone else has said, which I agree: great phase angle!

Roger

[Stu Bowie]

Sidharth, Roger, thanks for the feedback guys.

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

Lovely one Stu!:S3:

[Kiran Poonacha]

Beautiful colors and the catch adds very well here.. :cheers:

[Jim Crosswell]

Another beauty Stuart! I like the sharpness, catch and BG.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Great moment Stuart! Very nicely done!:cheers:

[Pieter de Waal]

Hi Stuart,

Like your BE shots , colours are spot on and BG and prey round it off beautifully.

Coincidently was photographing these guys at a small reserve quite close to Mbabane on Sunday.There are several nesting colonies, yet to get a good one.

[Herb Houghton]

I like the colors in this Stuart. The dragonfly looks good as well. Nice perch and clean BGD make this a great one too.

[Harshad Barve]

Excellent image Bhai , love the pose and BG , Mammals in Africa don't give you time for any birds:c3: , Don't they :bg3::bg3::bg3:
TFS

[RAM MALLYA]

Lovely moment captured . you could have moved the frame slightly upwards while cropping as the space above the bird is less

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks a stack everyone. Always appreciated.