Buff-tailed Coronets (flavescens race)

[Linda Robbins]

Putting up a perch at your set-up always produces lots of great interactions. These two birds are posturing and threatening each other. I found the left hand bird's wide open mouth interesting in this image.

Guango Lodge, Ecuador. EOS 1D Mark II N, 500mm f'/4 IS lens mounted on a tripod. Manual mode 1/250 sec at f/20. ISO 250. Seven flash set-up.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great interaction, details and exposure control. It's maybe a tad oversharpened.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Great timing Linda. Love the two poses and open beak as well as a wonderful BG. Congratulations on another outstanding capture.

[Maxis Gamez]

Gorgeous Linda!!

[Harold Davis]

ms linda, now you're just showing off!! absolutely fantastic. love the interaction!

[Steve Maxson]

Beautiful, Linda. Either one of these poses would have made a very nice image, but getting them both puts this over the top. The DOF at f/20 has everything tack sharp and the multi-flash setup is used to perfection here.

[James Salywoda]

I love your composition Linda such a beautiful shot nice eye contact from both and I love the poses.....

[Simon Bennett]

Wonderful interaction, and head-turn with bird at left.

[Mark Schmitt]

Will get published, right? Great.

[Blake Shadle]

What an incredible image, Linda. The poses of your subjects are excellent. I might consider adding some black to the neutrals in selective color. I think some of the over-sharpened look comes from the compression of the file. 66KB at 1000px is pretty impressive :) Great work.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Killer poses and great details!!!

[Chris van Rooyen]

Another technically perfect shot, well done Linda

[Ramon M. Casares]

Killer! Just terrific! Congratulaitons Linda, these guys are great and you make them even better! ;)