Hermit Thrush.

[Daniel Cadieux]

A bit of a lucky situation as I spotted this Hermit Thrush already on this perch so I took my sweet time to approach within striking distance and was able to photograph it for a few seconds before it was off into the bush. Oh, and pishing was used to get it to turn its head as it was busy eyeing something to its left...

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/1250s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, about 80% FF, darkened pupil, lightened iris, smoothen some lines in BG via low opacity clone stamp.

[Colin Driscoll]

Excellent. Lovely light, pose, perch and bg. Nice bird too! I'm guessing by the fluffed out feathers that it was cool weather.

[Holger Leyrer]

Nice image with a beautiful bird. I like the pose, perch and BG. The color palette works very well.

[keith mitchell]

The sort of image that I really like, super looking puffed up and relaxed bird on a nice clean BG, you could not ask for more.

[gail bisson]

Another classic image from you Daniel.
Love the fluffed up pose and the perfect HA,
gail

[Karl Egressy]

Nice pose, perch and excellent background, Daniel.

[vishaljadhav]

Nice image, the pose and the perch are lovely, the BG compliments this very nicely
HA and exposure are spot on, lovely

[Richard Flack]

Awesome perch and fantastic BG Daniel! I love the fact that the thrush is puffed up. Image shows awesome detail. Nice one!

[Daniel Cadieux]

Excellent. Lovely light, pose, perch and bg. Nice bird too! I'm guessing by the fluffed out feathers that it was cool weather.

Thanks, and yes it was cool...the temperature was at about the freezing mark at time of capture.

[Binu John]

Fabulous shot, Daniel! Love the exposure, background and lighting!