Two-headed Red-headed Woodpecker?

[Marina Scarr]

Photographed this pair last week while they were taking turns bringing food to their nest. As one would land on the tree with food (as seen on the left with a morsel in its mouth), the other would stick its head out and then take off to allow its mate access. I thought this turned out to be a fun picture. Did some burning of the tree trunk.

Canon 1D4, Canon 500L & 2.0
F11, 1/1000sec, ISO 800, manual mode
Feisol tripod, Jobu head

C & C always welcomed and much appreciated.

[Loi Nguyen]

Marina, what a fun picture! Perfect exposure for both the black and the white, tack sharp even with a 2X (thanks for reminding me to stop down whenever I strap a 2X on), sweet BG. Loi

[Robert Kimbrell]

Very fun picture, Its so well exposed , the blacks and whites are just right on, and the red is stunning. I sure dont see these guys very often.

[jack williamson]

Unbelievable! This is very well exposed, excellent to get both heads so sharp.

Jack

[dankearl]

Incredibly cool, made me look twice.Sharp, great close up and totally unique.

[Grace Scalzo]

I agree, Marina, nice image that tells the story. Any little ones peeking out yet? That will be really fun!

[arash_hazeghi]

This is so cool Marina!!!

[David Salem]

Very fun image with great techs. Very nice Marina

[Frank Schauf]

Excellent pose and light.

[Jim Thomas]

Wonderful! Love the detail on both birds. The small oof part of the trunk below the birds keeps drawing my eye. I had one of these show up at my house for an afternoon once, but never since.

Jim

[Karl Egressy]

Wery unique shot. Love the nice feather details and beutiful colours.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Very cool pose with the 2 and great idea going to f/11. Very well done!

[Bill Dix]

A fun shot indeed. Well captured, including great exposure on blacks and whites. Looking for more from this pair.

[Dan Brown]

Awesome, Marina!

[Gabriela Plesea]

Outstanding pose and colors Marina! I wouldn't be surprised at all to see your image on a bird book cover...Such an attractive image, congratulations on capturing this!

Kind regards

[Peter Dexter]

That is a funny one. Good timing.

[Shawn Zierman]

Such an original image for this species. Well done in most every regard. A slight head turn towards us for the bird emerging from the nesthole would have been even better imo. Their heads are aligned so perfectly, that it does almost appear to be a two headed bird.

[Robert Holguin]

Very cool and interesting shot.
I had to look twice almost seems like a bird with two heads.
Excellent details and great comp.
Very well done.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent image with it's own class.
Extremely beautiful colors and absolutely superb details.Great composition.
Love the frame. Have not seen such beautiful image of this wood pecker before.
TFS.

Regards,
Satish.

[Girish Prahalad]

a unique image! they almost look like co-joined twins ( is it the right word). colors & IQ are great

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

so cool, love it