Tree Swallow

[Daniel Cadieux]

While photographing Eastern Bluebirds their heated rivals, the Tree Swallows, kept encroaching on their territory. Needless to say the bluebirds did not like that too much! Here is one of said swallows resting on a nice spring-time perch. You can see some rain drops sprinkled on it's wing as there was also a very slight drizzle when it was photographed. OOF branch cloned out in upper right corner.

Canon 40D + 100-400L @400mm, 1/160s., f/7.1, ISO 640, -1/3 EC, fill-flash @ -2/3 FEC, handheld.

[Guy Germain]

Great shot Daniel !

[Raul Quinones]

Great picture, very nice colors and great soft background. Good eye contact.

[Robert O'Toole]

Love it Daniel, color, details, head angle, BG and sharp-sharp.

Robert

[Wayne Wood]

beautiful image Daniel ,,, I love how the greens showed up in the head and wing area , a color that's not easy to capture with this species, it was a great morning and nice to be out again

[Robert Amoruso]

Daniel,

The image works well all around for all the reasons mentioned.

[Thonnaksar NOP]

The perfect exposure brings out very well all the details and nice colours of the plumage. The head-turn is really great and I love the creamy BG.
Very well done !

[Peregrine Craig Nash]

I like everything about this image apart from the fact I think it is too centered but that is being very picky. I love the way its looking at you and the greens on its back are beautiful.

[JDGagne]

Great background and compo, Daniel,

Bird is sharp, Good shot !

Jean-Daniel

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

Daniel, this is absolutely gorgeous. The bg is very nice.
Lovely details on the feathers. My style of image :)

Szimi

[Freddy Franzella]

Love the soft subtle tones! nice detail and eye contact! overall nice image!!

[Gary Dumer]

Good color saturation, Crisp Detail and Soft BG really push this up a notch.

Very Well done Dan

[Glenn Bartley]

A beautiful shot of a beautiful bird :)

[Del Cockroft]

Good eye contact and great BG. Love the incandescent colours coming through.