Common Redpoll On Spring Snow.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Another from last week from a huge flock near a popular local bird feeder station. I like the way this one seemed to be hanging off the "cliff"...which was only a couple of feet off the ground. In my title I say "Spring Snow" as at this time of year when the temperatures get warm enough to start melting the white stuff away it takes on a different texture...harder, grainier, and icier...we see that texture well here.

With this pose take a wild guess which direction the feeder is located!

Canon 7D + 100-400L @400mm, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/800s., f/8, ISO 400, natural light, handheld, cropped for composition, some black debris spots in the perch spot-healed out, darkened pupil via burn tool.

[Nick Palmieri]

Love the detail in the bird and the snow works a s beautiful perch. The BG is perfect. Nice job!

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Superb image Dan, I like the perfect sharpness, the clean composition, lovely textured perch and HA! The whites have been handled expertly as well.

[Shawn Zierman]

I enjoy the contrast between the background color and the white snow/light toned subject.
Both feet show really well against the snow...a subtle yet attractive detail imo.

[Frank Schauf]

Excellent light, details and bg.

[vishaljadhav]

Wonderful image, the diagonal snow is nice to the frame, the bird is nicely perched and sharp.

don't tell me that the feeder was below the bird

[Karl Egressy]

Excellent details in the bird and snow, Daniel. The colours are kind of muted in the bird and background but the background colour compliments the pird's colours nicely.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Knockout Dan absolutely super, great exposure and the pose is excellent. I like the highly visible feet.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Simple, elegant and perfect. There's nothing I don't like about this one, Dan, and I stared at it for quite a while.

[mohammad reza shahab]

Excellent background,pose and great exposure.

[Bill Dix]

Love the creative comp. Nice work on the exposure, beautiful colors, and excellent detail in this little guy. Fine image.

[dankearl]

The thumbnail doesn't do this justice at all.
A striking image I think, the colors are great and the snow is a great perch!

[PhilCook]

Nice one Daniel, exposure and detail looks great and works nicely with the clean backdrop

[Sandy Witvoet]

These girls are so beautiful..... Totally love the crunchy snow.... Crest looks "orange" a bit (as does some color on neck and breast?) rather odd.... rest looks spot on....oh....and, maybe a little off the left and top? BG, eye... everything else is FAB. Great capture!

[Satish Ranadive]

Daniel Sir,
Gorgeous image of beautiful lady.Love the pose,colors,nice BG and composition.By her pose it looks like feeder is in front and right side of bird.

Regards,
Satish.