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    Default Hungry American Robin In Matching Surroundings.

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    Most of the fruiting trees in our local arboretum have red or deep red berries, but a couple of them are orange, so it was fun to see a few of these robins picking that matching tree for their feast!

    Canon R6 + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/600s., f/5.6, ISO 3200, natural light, handheld, small crop to help the comp, contrast and saturation to taste.

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    Daniel, a great photographer can make the most plain species look great. You did that here!

    Just love the color palette. The oranges and reds are superb and I agree, compliment the subject nicely.

    The diagonal branches coming in the right and LLC frame the subject well and you did a great job to get its tail in the clear.

    Great detail in the subject and can see your signature edits throughout. TFS!

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    Daniel:

    I will echo Brian's assessment. Fun pose with berry, tail up, great eye contact.
    I was pretty sure the image was yours when just looking at the thumbnails!

    Glad to see you are enjoying the R6!

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    Hi Dan, excellent time to capture the berry in the bill. I really like the color palette with the orange berries complimenting the breast feathers of the bird. I think the snow also adds to the image. Thank you for sharing.
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    Ditto the positive comments made here. A beautiful composition...I can see this as a xmas card!

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    The colors of the berries make this one for me. Nice job on the framing. Nice to see a berry in the mouth. I hope you had a retirement party for you 7D.

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    Hi Daniel .... this is an overall very good shot .
    I do really like the colorful winter setting , the bird with the berry in the beak is the icing for me .
    Well done .

    Cool work

    TFS Andreas

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    hi Dan,

    very good comp and colour...
    congratulations

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    Small crop from left and above = big improvement. Or not?

    with love, and loving the image,

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    artie, it does clean up the ULC nicely.

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