Rufus Tailed Jacamar.

[keith mitchell]

Nikon D4.
Nikon 300mm 2.8
1/250@f6.3
ISO 2000.


Thanks to Bill for posting images of Tobago looked out few I did on my trip,found a pair digging out a nest hole in a cliff face.

Thanks for looking and your comments on my last post.

[Marina Scarr]

Love image and pose. I think the vegetation works well with your subject here and frames it well. The perch could be improved but it's what nature doled out.

[Bill Dix]

Very nice one, Keith. You captured the colors very well, with a good pose, and I like the background. I like your perch better than the one I posted. I might be tempted to clean up the multiple catchlight a bit, although I realize it's the result of the light coming through openings in the forest canopy.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Keith, lovely pose with a good HA, and I do like the colours on this fellow. Nicely separated from the BG, and I like the dirty beak from his hard work.

I wish I had thin perches like these ones in your image.

[keith mitchell]

Thanks Marina and Stu,Bill pleased you noticed the catch lights did try to remove them but made a real mess,will see what else I can find from my trip.

Keith.

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Keith, great to see you posting from further a field, nice to get the opportunity to shoot different things in far away places.

Not much more to add to the above, but was this shot portrait or landscape, if the later I might suggest another option.

TFS
Steve

[keith mitchell]

Take your point Steve but personally I like the horizontal perch with it's broken end.

Thanks Keith.

[William Dickson]

Lovely looking frame Keith. love the BG, the leaves, and the detail on the bird is superb. Oh for light like that

Will

[keith mitchell]

Cheers Will,the light was under the the forest canopy so well pleased with the results.

Keith.

[Steve Kaluski]

was this shot portrait or landscape, if the later I might suggest another option.

Take your point Steve but personally I like the horizontal perch with it's broken end.

Keith I was asking about the format, not the perch/broken end of the perch.

[keith mitchell]

Sorry misunderstood Steve will look.

Keith.