Avian Image of the Week Dumay Boulle for week ending 5/13/2011 - African Darter

[Roman Kurywczak]

Congratulations Dumay Boulle for your image "African Darter" being chosen as the Avian Image of the Week for the week ending 5/13/2011!!!

Canon 1D MKIII
Canon 500 f4 L IS
TV 1/2500
AV f5.6
ISO 800
AWB
Evaluative Metering
Exp comp +1
RAW file processed in CS5 iMac

Been trying to get a in flight of these for a while, find it difficult to get detail in them in flight for some reason...About 75% of full frame.

Comments and crits appreciatedhttp://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php/images/smilies/smile3.gif

[Hilary Hann]

Congratulations Dumay, beautiful image.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Congrats Dumay. Stunning shot. very well deserved.

[Brendan Dozier]

Congratulations, Dumay! :cheers:

[Humberto Ramos]

Congrats Dumay an amazing BIF capture, well deserved...

[Kiran Poonacha]

congrats.. beautiful image indeed...

[Dumay de Boulle]

Thanks folks:bg3:...This is a first IOTW for me. Something I have wanted to achieve since I first started posting here. It is a real achievement for me personally. There are so many amazing photographers on this forum. Thank you all for your valuable input into my images. Seeing all your fantastic images makes me want to strive to get better and better.

[Stu Bowie]

Congrats on a fine image mate. Well deserved.

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Well done on fine first Bud, fantastic Dumay :S3:

[arash_hazeghi]

Superb and well deserved. Congrats

[Harshad Barve]

Congratulations Dumay