Hermit Thrush.

[Daniel Cadieux]

One of the most beautiful songs of the North American forests. The background here is a vernal pool, created by melted snow, and I was pointing down towards it. The wind hitting the surface created these subtle variations and striations, which I thought looked pretty neat. Subject attracted to natural perch via audio.

Canon R6 + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/200s., f/5.6, ISO 3200, natural light, handheld, FF, removed bluish cast to the white feathers via hue/saturation, cleaned up the eye reflection.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Love the setting and the pose. Colours entirely complimentary, I have not seen one of these before and I agree a beautiful bird. Super details.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Hi Dan, I agree with your write up, the background does look pretty neat. About as parallel to the bird as it gets, nice colors and feather detail. I like the image, thank you for sharing.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Dan .. the image does look almost like a painting with all those pastel colors , but I do like it as photograph as well .
Just a pleasure to look at ...

TFS Andreas

[Arthur Morris]

Wow. Wow. Wow! You were really pushing it HH-ing at 700 mm at 1/200 second. This image is far beyond amazingly beautiful, stunning. Was audio used?

much love, a

[Daniel Cadieux]

Thanks a stack guys! Yes artie, audio used (written in the caption) - glad you like it!

[Kurt Bowman]

Very nicely done Daniel! I absolutely love that BG and great looking subject as well! Congrats on a fine image

[Volkan Akgul]

Hi Daniel,

as usual...
congratulations