Chestnut-breasted Coronet (Ecuador)

[Glenn Bartley]

Here's another beauty from Ecuador. I just love the feather pattern on the face of these guys.

For those interested I have finally uploaded all 375 species of birds that I photographed down there to - www.glennbartley.com

Cheers!

Camera Model: Canon EOS 50D
Shutter speed: 1/50 sec
Aperture: 8
Exposure mode: Av
Exposure compensation: -1/3
Flash: On
ISO: 400
Focal length: 500mm + 1.4x

[Daniel Belasco]

Simply Beautiful.
Cannot be improved upon!

[Dave Barnes]

Super colour and detail on the face and bill. Good BG.
Was he very close, I thought you would have a bit more DOF at F8.

[Cal Walters]

I love the overall composition and agree with the comments above. I love the moisture on the branch. I am a little distracted by the flash detail in the eye - the 2 parts of highlight separated by (possibly your silhouette) keeps drawing my eye from the rest of an otherwise great shot. Can't wait to see your other images.

[Geurt Bloem]

Lovely subject and it seems as if it has a "chain-of-armour" around the head area. I really like the general composition as well. A well done for me.

[Joe Senzatimore]

Sweet image with great color and a fantastric perch.

[Keith Bauer]

What a little beauty. Great detail. Ditto on the comment about the eye. I think I'd look at a quick clone. Thanks for sharing this one. It is a great view

[Lorant Voros]

Beautiful bird, nice colors, perch is on the large side, but beautiful as well. I like the image as it is, though the multiple catchlight is a bit distracting; maybe by removing one would give an unnatural look but worth trying for sure. Congratulations.

[Morkel Erasmus]

what a lovely bird!! great sharpness and exposure too. nothing to crit on this end!

[Kiran Poonacha]

what a jewel glenn, sucg lovely colours captured.. 375, thats quite a no, waiting for them...

[Melvin Grey]

Beautiful bird - and photograph!, Glenn. Very nice use of restrained flash giving a very 'natural light' feel. I think the catchlight in the eye looks very natural, typical of what one gets in tropical rainforest situations where there is not a clear area of sky.

[David Fletcher]

What a gorgeous little beauty! Good ff use too. TFS Glenn.