Daddy's love

[AdityaPadhye]

Male Baya weaver feeding his juvenile chick


Canon 5D Mark III + 600mm IS II + 1.4x II TC
1/1000
f/7.1
ISO 1250
Shot in the early afternoon time, slightly harsh light.
Cropped quite a bit

[John Cooper]

This is very sweet Aditya - I love the interaction here between adult and chick, good IQ and the environment recorded without being intrusive. The few seeds tumbling down from under the adult bird provides additional interest. Maybe a very small crop off RHS would further strenghen the composition. Well done!

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Aditya, well timed to capture the feeding behaviour, and good that we can see the eyes from both birds. I like that both are perched on upright pieces of foliage. Maybe moving to your left a tough would have separated the flower on the left birds neck.

[christopher galeski]

nice interaction,BG is a bit busy for me,and as Stuart as said about the flower on the birds neck,like the tumbling seeds,thanks.

[Randy Stout]

Aditya:

Very nice interaction. Good points from the guys about the flower touching adult. The bright vertical band on left could be toned down a bit. The out of focus foreground material overlapping the juvis tail is a bit distracting. The story telling is good!

Cheers

Randy

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Great moment well captured. pity about the flower coming in the way...but not much you could have done. Well done.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Excellent points covered above but it still looks very good overall with a nice story!

[Karl Egressy]

Great timing, excellent interaction captured very nicely.

[Marina Scarr]

This image portrays such an awesome story, and I love all of the environment included here. It's quite artistic. I agree on cropping from the right to tighten it up just a tad.

[AdityaPadhye]

Thanks for the comments and critique :)
John, agree with the crop on the RHS, the OOF portion is distracting. Thanks!
This feeding was happening quickly and quite far off so I failed to see the purple flower in time :( Would have loved to have it separated distinctly between the two.
Randy, will try re-editing the picture while removing the RHS oof stuff and toning down the vertical band on the left as well.

[AdityaPadhye]

Quick edit -

[AdityaPadhye]

I have another version of this frame where the female bird is feeding the chick, will upload that as well :)

[Arthur Morris]

Wonderful interaction. You were in the right spot; the flower was in the wrong spot.... Still very lovely.