Sharp-shinned Hawk.

[Karl Egressy]

I had a visitor today early afternoon.
I went up to the second floor, carefully opened the window and took some pictures.
It was kind of raining on and off.
Thanks for looking

Canon 5DM3
Canon 500 f4.0
ISO 1000
f 5.0
1/400 s
HH.

[Joseph Przybyla]

A beauty Karl, lovely colors and detail. Thank you for sharing.

[John Cooper]

Wow Karl you get some cool visitors to your garden - how good is that!!
I love the soft colours afforded by the overcast sky and great BG as well!

[arash_hazeghi]

good pose and sharp details, a bit head turn towards us would have made it even better. there are some processing artifacts where the orange meets grey at the bottom of the frame

[Geoffrey Montagu]

What a beautiful image, Karl. Wonderful detail, and super BG. Like that you also captured some streaking rain. The light is exceptional. Can't miss those talons.




Geoffrey

[Bill Dix]

Great pose with intense stare. Lovely bg, good detail. Love those talons. Nice to have visitors like this one (and be prepared to take advantage of it.) Well done.

[dankearl]

Striking image, Karl....
The eye and feet are really nice.

[keith mitchell]

Karl bet your pleased with this I know I would be, this in your garden you are a lucky guy, cracking image.

Keith.

[Marina Scarr]

What a great opportunity, Karl. Your pose really shows off this raptor well and the colors are striking against that pastel BG.

[John Robinson]

All been said really.
Near perfect raptor shot.
Cheers
JohnR

[Richard Flack]

Lovely image Karl, BG is brilliant and the facial detail is awesome. Would have been nice to push the fstop up to 7.1 here but I guess light was not allowing. TFS

[MiroslavMaric]

Hi Karl. Like the BG tone and composition of the frame. The light is great too. TFS.

Cheers,
Miro

[Robert Kimbrell]

A very pleasing image Karl, The attractive background sets him off well, Excellent sharpness in his face.

[David Salem]

Killer Karl!! Love these little Accipiters and I have had many nice juvenile females like this. They are great little hunters. Nice colors and details. I might remove the few raindrops as there aren't enough of them to make it look right. Very nice find.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the sharpness, low light, details, clarity and composition. A bit more of a head turn would be nice but I would still love to have this in my files. Well done Karl.

[shane shacaluga]

Agree with the comments above! Lovely raptor captured in gloomy conditions which really make the yellows pop-out. A bit more DOF has also been mentioned but conditions were probably not ideal for that

Thanks for sharing

[mohammad reza shahab]

great pose and sharp details.Lovly BG.