Pink Cockatoo

[John Cooper]

This Pink Cockatoo, commonly known as the Major Mitchell cockatoo, was nesting in a tree hollow some 25 feet above ground level in the arid west of New South Wales.

Canon EOS 3, Canon 100-300 F5.6L at 300mm, 1/125 sec F11, Fuji 100RDP, Natural light with fill flash, hide atop 25 ft tower, Tripod.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Pretty bird, details, setting and BG. If you had moved a bit to the right there would be no OOF branch in the upper right. If you clone, you could remove it since it is a bit distracting.

[John Cooper]

Repost with 'ofending' branch cloned out as suggested by Axel.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

This is much better. I forgot to mention that a bit more room at the top would be nice, but not too much, maybe 1cm or so. While I'm at it, maybe a bit NR on the BG. I really like this.

[Ian Colley]

A beautiful bird John, and a very nice image, I prefer to version with the branch removed.

[Alfred Forns]

Beautiful bird John !!!! Love the pose and setting The second looks much better and attractive Big Congrats !!!

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

What a beautiful image John and the repost is awesome !!!

[Fabs Forns]

Very beautiful bird and great repost!!

[Glenn Bartley]

Gorgeous. And the repost is even better!

[David Steele]

A lovely shot John but I wonder if it shouldn't be a tad darker?

[Simon Bennett]

Excellent image John, and a good clone job too.

[Christopher C.M. Cooke]

John a lovely photo of one of my favorite Cockies, the clone job is great.

Hope you get some rain out West.

[Linda Robbins]

Such a beautiful cockatoo and the ps work paid off in the repost. This image made putting up the 25 ft tower and waiting in the hide worth it!