Male Purple Sunbird displaying for female

[laurie golden]

I was photographing a female sunbird near Ranthambhore National Park India when this male landed on a vine at her right and began displaying. I did not know that they had these hidden feathers, my book does not show them. I probably should have removed the partial flower on the left since it is almost out of the picture.

Nikon D3S, 500mm f4.0 plus 1.4 converter, 700mm
ISO 1250, f5.6, 1/320sec
Manual Exposure

[jack williamson]

Great pose and feather detail, fine exposure. His tail is a little close to the bottom and it would probably be better without the flower on the left side, really nice BG.

Jack

[Joe Senzatimore]

Very nice image that I think would work well as a vertical. There seems to be a bitt too much on the left side.

[arash_hazeghi]

very cool, agree a vert is way to go here

[Harshad Barve]

It has come out so nicely Laurie, great pose , HA , side profile with " breeding plumage " , If mine I may go like this , excellent
TFS