Jr.............................

[Ritesh Nangare]

(Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher Chick)
CameraCanon 1DX
LensCanon 500mm
Focal Length 700mm
Shutter Speed 1/13 s
Aperture f/8
ISO/Film 1600
Taken July, 2012
This is the first time this chick seeing the outer world in his maiden flight he sussed to parch on the tree branch.
After 14 to 22 days spending in the nest, all the chicks became as big as there mother, father. now the nest became small for them they came out one by one from the nest in one hour , two hours, one day or it will take as long as two days to came out.
Enjoy.........................

[gail bisson]

Hi Ritesh,
The KF is sweet. What a wonderful opportunity you had to see these KF leave the nest.
I find the subject a bit too big in the frame for my taste and would loosen the crop.
It is a bit odd that you were at F8 yet the feet are out of the DOF.Was there OOF vegetation in front of the feet?
Gail

[William Dickson]

I agree with Gail. The image is very nice and lovely colours. Re the feet, I noticed your shutter speed was slow, maybe the feet were moving?

[Raybel Robles]

Nice colors and pose! I would add a bit at the bottom if you have more canvas. Im also curious why the branch and feet are OOF. Did you ran noise reduction to that area?

[Satish Ranadive]

Magnificent image of cute little one with wonderful colors.

Regards,
Satish.