While photographing the Evening Grosbeaks a pair of Purple Finches also made an appearance. Here the male shows off its raspberry colouring while his brownish sparrow-like mate was busy feeding on seeds on the feeder just out of the frame. Normally I would not like the extra perch part but I like the various play on angles with it and it's small part along with the main perch and it's smaller part. Having said this, an alternate version without it there is certainly not out of question.
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/320s., f/6.3, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, cropped for comp (original vertical), usual eye work (darken pupil), three out of place and lonely snowflakes removed via spot removal tool.







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