Phoebe in the Rain

[Paul Lagasi]

Not sure who was more miserable, Me or the Phoebe..I came across this bird at Patagonia Lake, Arizona...we were searching for a Togon that was overwintering there...no luck with Trogon. We had rain, hail, snow this day...both bird and I were soaked...light was bad but image came out better than I thought.

D300
Nikon 300 2.8
f4
1/800
iso-800
pattern metering
aperture priority
handheld
cropped

[Axel Hildebrandt]

The soft light, eye contact and sharpness look good. I could also see this as a vertical crop.

[Steve Canuel]

Hope you had more fun than what the bird looks like he's having. I like the mood and the mottled colors of the BG. I liked more of a pano look when I did a browser crop to remove the dark band up top.

[Raymond Barlow]

I like it a lot Paul., well done... the rain adds so much mood!