Carmine Beeaters

[Ken Watkins]

Taken on Kwando River in Kwando Concession, Northern Botswana 4th October 2004

EOS 10D

100-400+1.4x at 560

F8, 1/200, ISO 200

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the sense of motion and light in this one. It would be even better with the birds flying toward you. These birds are so beautiful, I'd love to see one sometime.

[Arthur Morris]

Yes, a good sense of motion but this one does not work for me. There is no real pattern--too many merges and lots of dead space. What I would love to see is a really wide image of the whole bank and 100 or so birds... Are they always flying around or do the come and go? In groups?

[Milo Burcham]

Although I love the beautiful colors, the gap in the center hurts tthe pattern and I wish for more blur or tack sharp