Eastern Meadowlark

SonyA700~Sony70-400G@400mm~ISO500~F5.6~1/640 sec~manual exposure~11-15-2009~Brays Bayou, Houston, Texas~CS4/Topaz Clean2
Used Topaz Clean 2 only. Comments and critique welcomed. regards~Bill

I like the capture Bill,
The applied effect works quite well...very nice...:cool:

Bill, I love their sweet little voices. One of my first bird images was an Eastern Meadowlark. Very nice singing pose and the perch is a perfect size. I like the diagonal position of the perch as well. Beautiful details throughout. VWD!!

Nice image and application. Well done.

Like the pose.

Only improvement I could suggest is to have the branch come from the LLC, if you had cropped the image. But given the location of the subject, I would not suggest it for this image.

Beautifully done. I might lighten the eye or add a catchlight if it were mine. Great work.

That is one heck of a shot, sharp and very clean Bill. Impressive details and comp.

All the best Bill and yep, thats as sharp as a tack !!

Danny.

Thanks for the nice comments! Michael: to my eyes at least, there is a catchlight. Mark: The traditional branch from LLC was a thought of mine as well. It didn't seem to work here as you suspected. regards~Bill

Beautiful shot and treatment. I love the way the tailfeathers are fanned out.

Lovely pose and treatment, Bill. Very well done!