Carolina Wren.

[Karl Egressy]

I believe its a juvi. Y
ou can see that some of the feathers are still growing in.
I took this shot yesterday morning.
The species is normally shy, hard to get in the open, but young birds are better in this regard.
I removed one OOF barely visible branch from the background.
I smoothened out the transition between the dark and light green at the top right corner.
Thanks for looking.

Canon 1D MIV
Canon 500 f4.0 L IS II. +1.4x III.
ISO 800
f7.1
1/250 s

[Marina Scarr]

Truly a lovely image and pose, Karl. Great details and colors!

[Grace Scalzo]

Perfect wren pose, Karl. I'd smooth out the vertical transition line under his tail and work a bit on the steely eye look and then be real happy with this sweet image.

[Karl Egressy]

Perfect wren pose, Karl. I'd smooth out the vertical transition line under his tail and work a bit on the steely eye look and then be real happy with this sweet image.

Thanks Grace. I hope I fixed all the problems you mentioned.

[Grace Scalzo]

Karl, they were teeny tiny problems, but with an image this good, I think it's woth the extra mile. Love the repost.

[Robert Kimbrell]

Beautiful image Karl, A great pose and I like the repost.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Perfect wren pose, Karl. I'd smooth out the vertical transition line under his tail and work a bit on the steely eye look and then be real happy with this sweet image.

Grace where do you see the steely eye? sorry but that is the reflection of the sky in the eye. No steely eye.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Thanks Grace. I hope I fixed all the problems you mentioned.

Karl I do like your original post but I don't know what you did to the repost. Now the eye looks unnatural buddy, look at the original file, I am sure that is not steely eye as mentioned by Grace, it is just the reflection of the sky in the eye. Love the light, sharpness and alert pose by the way.

[Grace Scalzo]

Juan, perhaps I used an incorrect word in describing the eye . I did not like the gray -blue color of the reflection in the eye .

[christopher galeski]

nice image Karl,sharp with good detail.

[arash_hazeghi]

I like the pose and details, I wish he was looking at us a bit more. nice BG too

[Richard Flack]

Lovely image Karl. Cool bird. TFS

[Gabriela Plesea]

This is a beautiful clean image Karl, I personally like the OP save for that vertical line which Grace pointed out above (I see it has been sorted out already). Nice detail on the bird and lovely pose, love that green BG, the subject pops so nicely against it!

Kind regards,

[MohsenVahedipour]

The OP looks better for me. Excellent pose, pose & BG with great nice details. TFS

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Karl, cool pose, and I like the detail and colours. You have nailed the repost.