House Wren

[Tim Harding]

7D MkII | 500mm F/4 IS USM + 1.4x
1/640 @ f/5.6 ISO 800

Taken at first light near an old bluebird nest box on a split-rail fence line.

Thanks for looking.

[Bill Dix]

Gorgeous light makes him golden. Great singing pose. Pink blossoms are well positioned with him in between. (They do tend to draw the eye away from the beautiful little wren.) Extremely sharp detail, almost to the point of crunchy.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Great capture, Tim. Early morning light creates a beautiful IQ. I agree with Bill re the pink blossoms. I would tone them down for they add a nice BG quality.




Geoffrey

[keith mitchell]

Would certainly keep the pink blossoms they really add to the bg, but maybe a tad softer, lovely little bird in a nice singing pose, nicely caught.

[adrian dancy]

All in all a superb capture of this bird in full song. The pinks are competing but I still like them. The bird in my humble opinion is a touch over sharpened and you should still have plenty of detail with less sharpening. I love the perch!

[Karl Egressy]

Great singing pose, excellent light and nice background, Tim.

[Randy Stout]

Tim:

Lots of great comments above. I tend to agree with toning down the flowers just a bit, and backing off on the sharpening a bit.

The pose and perch are very nice.

Cheers

Randy

[christopher galeski]

nice image,like the pose,agree on toning down the blossoms,and the sharpening.TFS.

[Tim Harding]

Thanks to all for the excellent suggestions.

[Richard Flack]

Hi Tim, great perch, awesome pose captured and I really like the flowers in the background. TFS

[Warren Spreng]

Nothing else to add, agree with the comments and love the pose!