A Southern Carmine Bee eater flying through the nesting colony on the look out for potential mates. Image captured during a recent photo trip to Kalizo along the Zambezi River, Namibia where thousands of these beautiful birds return to every year to nest.
A charming vista, Brendon, with a background that suits your subject(s) very nicely. I'd love to see the uncropped image, if you'd care to share it? I agree with Dr Zierman's sentiments, see above.
That is awesome, I love seeing all these birds in their habitat like this. The flying individual is placed perfectly in the frame. The white areas above do grab my eye a bit more than I like so perhaps toning those down more would be a good option. Although minor I would also eliminate the twig running behind the OOF flying individual at left Quite different than the norm, in a good way...highly enjoyable image..
Great opportunity and looking very good, stunning subjects, loving the dof blur and open wings, my only wish would of been to have the main focus bird more to the left of the frame
This is a very engaging photo, Brendon. Must be quite a sight, and you photo almost takes me there.
I don't know how to critique this photo, all I can say is that I enjoyed it thorougly.
Super image Brendon. I can only imagine how long it took you to orchestrate this shot. I was lucky enough to see a colony of these birds at their nests (deep holes in a river bank) near King's Pool camp in Botswana, an experience I won't soon forget!
Carmine Colony
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