What are you looking at?? (Smooth-billed Ani)

[Glenn Bartley]

These guys have a fair bit of personality...

Camera Model: Canon EOS 50D
Shutter speed: 1/100 sec
Aperture: 7.1
ISO: 400
Focal length: 500mm + 1.4

[denise ippolito]

Glenn, Really nice stare and details look great-beautiful light and BG!

[Ramon M. Casares]

VERY nice and funny, I like the BG, light, exposure, pose, and atitude! Perch is also great! Congratulations!

[Ilija Dukovski]

Really great bird, great character shot.
The HA goes very well here,
I would be tempted to rotate CW.

Ilija

[Dan Brown]

Glenn, this is another awesome image from you! The stare is really nice! The BG is super! You really have a knack for positioning yourself with great BG's!!

[Cal Walters]

Glen, this is a nice image - I particularly like the tension between the bird and perch and you - leaning to control posture but aware of your presence (seemingly). While I like the authenticity that comes from the imperfection in the tail feather separation, it distracts a bit from the beautiful mantle around the head. I personally struggle backgrounds that are so blurred to as feel like a sears photo studio - but that is one man's opinion. Oh, I also like the irregularity of the lichens which helps counter a bit of my background comment. I'd be happy to have this in my set.