Porphyrio poliocephalus ore Purple Swamphen

[Alexander Koenders]

Bag from a nioce holiday at the country of Norway I had the opportunity to photograph this annimal olmost at my bagyard. Strange because this is a bird comming from Azia and not normaly seen in Holland.

Olympus E3, Zuiko ED300 F2.8, Zuiko 2.0 converter, 600mm focuslength, F8, 1/160sec, 0 stop

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

nice looking bird with beautiful pose..I would prefer a more OOF bg!

[Harshad Barve]

nice looking bird, nice pose , lovely colors
we have their cousines here , may post one of those
TFS

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Great pose, sharpness and colors. But the background distracts IMO. It perhaps could also benefit from more space at the bottom, top and to the left. JR

[Chris van Rooyen]

Great sharpness, posture and I really like the habitat in the background. I would suggest lightening the eye perhaps a slight bit?

[Phil Ertel]

I personally like the background as it includes enough details to tells us of the birds habitat. You have exposed the bird well as you have good details throughout. I love the raised foot. I also agree with Chris that lightening the eye a bit to show off the color might be worth the effort. Overall an enjoyable image; thanks for sharing.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I love the BG in the half behind the bird, but not so much the half in front (the culprits being the large horizontal brown grasses). I agree your subject is rather tight in the frame - specifically top and bottom. I agree with lightening the eye. Great view of the large foot, and nice HA.

[Mital Patel]

excellent shot. raised foot is plus to me. some cloning work on bg can make this more interesting