A bit of Nome - Siberian Bluethroat

[Grace Scalzo]

Whenever I take a trip, it takes me quite a few months to be ready to evaluate and edit my images. At first I am too clouded by the sheer excitement of a new place, new species, memories,etc. I am now beginning to go through the images that I took in Nome, AK this past June and found this one to share with you.

Thank you for looking, and for your comments. I appreciate them all.

1/800, f8, iso800
Canon 1dx, 600f4 + 2.0tc + rrs tripod

[Ashley Cohen]

Fantastic capture. wonderful use of the perch and an excellent pose. I'd love to see a bluethroat, thankfully they occasionally appear as rarities in the UK so I may get my chance. I know they have shown up very locally too. Amazing to think you've been almost the same bird ( probably a different sub species or type of bluethroat) in Alaska.

[dankearl]

I am about ready to book a trip!
What a beautiful species.
One would never think of Alaska viewing this, just superb and a cool perch to go with.
I am looking forward to more....

[Doug Schurman]

What a great bird. Sharpness looks good.

To me looks like highlights could be toned down about or maybe the exposure. Appears just a bit bright for me on the light colors.

[keith mitchell]

Grace as soon as I saw this I was thinking Holland very surprised at Alaska we live and learn, love the pose and singing bird maybe a tad bright but I like it a lot.

Keith.

[Satish Ranadive]

What a wonderful pose of this handsome bird with colorful wardrobe, you have captured here.
Love the calling pose, nice HA, beautiful colors, details, very nice perch.
Rest every thing is just superb.

Regards,
Satish.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Great calling pose, perch, BG, colours. I "browser cropped" from the top down to just above the top-most bloom and liked what I saw rather than seeing the perch tip. Just a subjective option for you...

[gail bisson]

Beautiful light and BG. IQ is awesome as well.
Perfect singing pose.
You are the queen of comp so I feel a bit cheeky suggesting this -I find the composition a bit "long" and would look at cropping from the bottom to just above the first ***** willow. This would put the bird squarely in lower third of image both horizontally and vertically.Just a thought.
Another wish is that he was higher up on the branch so that the ***** willow wasn't obscuring some the belly. Again a minor nit...
I have a feeling you have not shown us the best of the bunch yet and am looking forward to those bluethroat images!
Gail
Gail

[Karl Egressy]

Excellent singing pose captured of a rare bird, Grace. Background, perch and comp. are all great.