Goldfinch

[Jonathan Ashton]

Tripod head bolted to shelf, Canon 7D Canon 500mm f4 ISO 800 1/1600 sec f5.6
Image taken from my back garden hide, I had to do a little doctoring, I will let you see the image for what it is worth, then I will tell you what I did, though I suspect I will be rumbled in no time!
All C&C welcome.

[Marina Scarr]

The colors here are absolutely amazing, as is the perch, the lichen, the BG. My only wish, and I am sure yours as well, is that both wings were up. The bird seems a bit off kilter.

[Doug Brown]

Fantastic color, great perch, and top-notch detail. Agree with Marina about wanting that other wing up.

[Lorant Voros]

Beautiful work, Jon. I agree it would be nice to have the other wing up, but what a nice image with the IQ, colors, BG and perch choice. Congratulations.

[keith mitchell]

Jonathan looked hard at this and can't really see anything apart from the bit of the other wing that looks a bit odd but perhaps that is how it should be, the rest of the image looks spot on!

Keith.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thanks for the feedback everyone, the bird looks a little off kilter because the branch is very light so as it tries to launch the branch gives way.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Gorgeous colors and impeccable processing, Jon. While I agree that both wings up would've been awesome, I'd take this in a heart beat.

[Holger Leyrer]

Wonderful colours, light and details. I wish you captured the Image with both wings

[Matthew Studebaker]

a fun wing-up pose. fantastic colors and light.

[Ishmeet Sahni]

A beauty of an image, nice IQ, super colors....as everyone before me, would love to have seen the second wing.

[christopher galeski]

its all been said Jonathan,nice image,dare I say it,I wish the other wing was up.

[Jeannean Ryman]

I'll be the odd man/woman out and say I like it as is. It's a very natural pose depicting the precarious balance on such a thin perch. I'm a little off-kilter myself sometimes, so maybe that's why I like it as is. ;) Lovely colors, light, and background as well.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Excellent pose & IQ with lovely light, perch & BG. TFS

[Satish Ranadive]

Wonderful image with beautiful colors,lovely lights and great IQ.

Regards,
Satish.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thank you everyone, the doctoring apart from the obvious crop was to add canvas and I also made a wing tip for the first primary feather, I used one of the others and transformed it to the correct size and orientation.

[Frank Schauf]

Great timing, great action.