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    Default Juvenile wheatear

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    Manual mode, car as blind, croped (80%)

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    Very nice pose and complimentary BG. I'm not familiar with the bird except by photos, but I'm guessing he's molting? I could imagine a version with a little less of the rock.

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    Bill, I'm not a bird specialist, I was thinking it is a juvenile because in other images I''ve shot (magnified 300%) the "edges" of the beak, at the base are thick and yellow. Thanks for comment.

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    Neat bird with a beautiful complementary background. I like the rock too. Id' take just a bit off the left side and a sliver off the right side to get closer to 3X2. In an ideal world the bird's head would not be turned quite so much toward us.
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    Agree with Artie about the head angle so turn towards you, but I would still be happy with this one. I do like the rock, and very nice clean BG. I would make the rock a tad darker.

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    Ovidiu,
    Magnificent image.Very nice colorscheme. Love the colors of bird.

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    Satish.

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    Love the foot holding on to the top of the rock. Good techs and excellent details. Perch and BG look fine too. I agree with too much head turn (I usually do not like it when the far eye is just barely peeking - I'd rather more or nothing there). I like the crop as is, but I'm thinking something similar to the previous image you posted would have been even better. Sweet subject BTW!

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