Kingfishers sharing fish

Hi Guys,

Have not had much time to post lately as i have been working very hard on a Kingfisher project wich uptill now resulted in around 3000 images.
Here's one i liked of them sharing a meal...

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Canon Eos 1D Mark3
Shutter speed: 1/200 sec
Aperture: F 8
Exposure mode: AV
Exposure compensation: - 1 1/3
Flash:no
Flash exposure compensation: -
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: AI Focus
ISO: 800
Lens: Canon 600mm F4
Focal length:780 mm (incl. crop factor)
AF mode: Auto Focus
On tripod and Wimberley Sidekick from hide
Levels/Curves/USM/Contrast/Saturation/Noise Ninja/Lab-Sharpening

Great capture, I like the details, soft light and the bird flying toward the perch. I only wish for a smoother BG but that doesn't seem to be possible in this setting. Thanks for sharing and good luck with your project!

I like the action you've captured in this photo Jeroen. If I were to do a kingfisher project it would consist of 10 lousy photos taken from a great distance! :) While the BG is a little blotchy, it's easy enough to fix in PS if you want to. I'd love to have an image like this in my portfolio! Thanks for posting!

Love the poses and the colors in this one Jeroen, nice work!

Very nice picture Jeroen! I like the green BG and the frozen action in this photo. Good luck with your project!

As always, very nice! I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Very nice action. The blurred wings adds a lot of action to the scene. the Bg works fine to me and the perch is an excellent compliment.

Excellent moment. I have seen a few images of KFs sharing a fish but those were on stationary perches. This is the first one where the male is in flight delivering the meal !
The blurred wings adds to the action.
Very well executed photograph. Will look forward to see more of ur KF images...
Keep them coming!

I absolutely love that perch!! Neat interaction, and the wing blur really adds to the action.

Love it Jeroen !!!! Fantastic interaction and catching them both in the same plane of focus !!! Big Congrats !!!

Great interaction and I love the blurred wings of the male!!! I'd sharpen his eye a little more. What a nice perch, was it set-up?

The color, detail and framing are outstanding. The action and interaction is superb. The perch is perfect and the BG bothers me not. Really nicely done...

Steve

Super action. As mentioned by others, the blurred wings really make this image outstanding. Beautiful perch too!

fantastic action! great capture! I absolutely love this one. The PP also looks very complex, but it is very good.

Congrats - amazing - very well done

Jeroen,
I absolutely adore this image. Kingfishers are super subjects, so little, fast and hard to capture. your patience had indeed paid off. Congrats. I cannot find faults to my taste at all.

:)