Young Barn Swallows

[Daniel Grossi]

Everyone is posting photos of rare and interesting birds, and here I am with Barn Swallows ha ha. "Love the one you're with" right? I wanted to share this one for some opinions on whether or not it works. When does the action in an image forgive technical flaws and broken rules? If I could tell the birds what to do I'd have told the far right oof one to leave for a moment and let mom know she's covering the face of one. There are a few things I really like about this one, but what really made it a keeper for me was the Damselfly in the mouth of the one on the left.

Nikon D500 (Handheld)
Nikkor 600mm f/4E FL ED VR + TC-14E III
1/2500
f/8
ISO-1600
Matrix Metering

Cleveland, Ohio
July 2017
Hot, muggy and 100% overcast early afternoon.

[John Mack]

Nice action here. If this was shot looking down the perch as opposed to behind it. You would get a better view of the adult feeding the young ones.

[annmpacheco]

Damselfly it was for me too! TFS