A Little Cherub Named Savannah.

[Daniel Cadieux]

While slowly driving down a country road I came upon this young Savannah Sparrow happily preening, scratching, yawning, and stretching on this fence post. Amazingly it stayed there for a full 10 minutes while I photographed it doing so. Here's a little over-the-shoulder stretch it gave me before resuming its preening activities...

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/2000s., f/7.1, ISO 800, natural light, handheld from car, FF, a few pieces of debris eliminated from perch, an oof grass strand growing out of the sparrow's back cloned out.

[Mervyn Marsh]

Very nice, like the pose and the sweet b/g..

[Marina Scarr]

This is such a lovely image, Daniel. Love the light, the perch, the pose and it all works great against your awesome BG.

[Randy Stout]

Daniel:

The colors between the perch, bird and background work very well here. Like the slight gradient at the top of BG, gives a little more presence there.

Cute pose that works well with the shape of the large perch. He might have been overpowered by the perch is sitting sedately!

Cheers

Randy

[Bill Dix]

Nice one Daniel. A lovely angel pose, sweet background, nice light and detail, and a great fencepost.

[Joseph Przybyla]

A beauty Daniel, both the bird and image. I am liking this a lot, beautiful sparrow, perfect background, complimenting perch. Thank you for sharing.

[Shawn Zierman]

That's a wow pose and very impressive that you achieved this from a car! The perch is uber deluxe, and size wise, regarding what you've shown of it...it's perfectly balanced with the bird. Awesome light quality and techs.

[Satish Ranadive]

Spectacular image with elegant pose. Love the HA,lights,colors,details,wonderful BG and superb composition.
Love the frame, Daniel Sir.

Regards,
Satish.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Dan, I like the light in this, and we forget how small the wings of the smaller birds are, after viewing large wingspans. Good detail all round, sharp, and I do like the moss covered perch and smooth BG.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Daniel , very nice !!!
Like the raised wings and the very clean image design . Nice detail /sharpness and tone color combination in this frame.

Stunning work . TFS Andreas

[Tom van den Brandt]

A beauty Daniel. Not much more to say

Tom

[mohammad reza shahab]

Hi Daniel,
Love the light, perch, pose and wonderful BG.
superb composition.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the pose, IQ, exposure, perch, BG and composition. Interesting image Daniel.

[Enrique Patino]

nailed it.

[Karl Egressy]

This fence post has character, makes a nice perch. The little cutie bird is very nice with its stretching and the background is nice and smooth, Daniel.

[David Salem]

I cant believe how much I like this frame! Great looking clean morning light and a perfect shooting angle put this guy in the spotlight. Pretty pose, great BG and and killer details. Cant ask for much more.

[keith mitchell]

Ticks all the boxes for me Daniel,bird looks superb in a great pose, perch bg all excellent.

Keith.

[Binu John]

Wow! What a great shot! Excellent stretching pose, light, details, perch and BG. Very well done, Daniel!