African Stonechat

[Stu Bowie]

Taken in a nature reserve close to my house last weekend. I liked the colours of the BG in this.

Canon 50D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/1000
F/6.3
ISO 400

Exp Comp +0.33
Hand Held from a car

[Malcolm Benn]

Man I love the crop on this and the pose, background and perch are perfect .. wish the light was a bit less harsh but a very pretty image.

[Harshad Barve]

beautiful image and very interesting crop ,
Lovely bird , expo and BG
TFS

[Morkel Erasmus]

great unusual shot Stu - bird looks a tad oversharpened? wish for a bit more space to the right.

[Brian Barcelos]

Stuart, I too love the bg and the birds position. I feel there is too much perch and agree with Morkel on adding more space on the right.

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks a stack for the feedback and suggestions guys. Here is a repost with some extra space on the right.

[Tony Whitehead]

I like the vertical pano crop, Stuart. BG is lovely. Size constraints for web don't do this image justice.

[denise ippolito]

Stuart, I love the vertical crop also. The repost looks great. Wish we could see it even larger. Very nicely done.

[Fabs Forns]

I think this would make a great bookmark :) Vertical panos always make me think of that. I'm fine with the original crop.

[Danny J Brown]

Stuart: Reminds me of a rufous-sided towhee here in Missouri. Great composition and the repost really took care of the harshness of the light. Well done.

[Kiran Poonacha]

like the repost bhai, loved the tall crop, good pose and BG.. congrats..

[Stu Bowie]

Thank you all so much.