Malachite Kingfisher

[Ken Watkins]

Hopefully this is new.

This was taken on Lake Manze channel on one of our afternoon trips down water birds paradise, Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania, 31st August 2010

EOS 1D Mk IV

500mm F4 IS hand held fron drifting boat

F5, ISO 800, 1/5000, EV-0.33 (:eek3:)

[Ofer Levy]

Beautiful light and colours! Sharp and a sweet pose. A bit tight on the left for me. How much of a crop is it ?

[Craig Kerr]

Exposure on the bird is superb, detail and colours are outstanding.

[Ken Watkins]

Ofer,

Difficult to say how much of a crop this is but it is large at best 15% of original RAW.

[arash_hazeghi]

great Ken details held up pretty well for the crop.

[Brendon Cremer]

Lovely image Ken well captured with nice colours and detail:w3

[Harshad Barve]

lovely image , may be worth to give try for loose frame
TFS

[Robert Holguin]

Real nice shot. Great pose, nice detail, and wonderful light.
Well done.

[Stu Bowie]

Well exposed on the colours Ken, as some can oversaturate these little jewels. Super pose, and I like how the MK is perched at the end of the perch.

[Dan Behm]

Ken,
A beautiful image, I love the colors on these birds and your image presents this species so well here. The light is magical and really brought out some great details, I like the fact the birds pose follows the same elements as the perch, I find that pleasing. I might consider a tad off the top, perhaps added to the bottom instead if that perch area is pleasing. then a bit added behind as well, also clone the double catch-light in the birds eye. Beautiful image, Great for you to add this to your files.

Dan

[Ken Watkins]

Dan,

Thanks for pointing out the double catch light I had not noticed that, concentrating on the beautiful colours I suppose:S3:

[Jonathan Ashton]

What an amazing image, it all came together here - a great shot well done.