Avian IOTW 5/14/10 Chris van Rooyen

[Alfred Forns]

Congratulations Chris van Rooyen
Long-tailed Widowbird

I captured this image last year, not been out a lot this year unfortunately. The widows have since lost their spectacular breeding attire, as we are fully in the southern winter now.

Camera Model: NIKON D3
Date/Time: 2009:12:23 06:226
Shutter speed: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: 7.1
Exposure mode: Manual
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Multi-segment
ISO: 1800
Lens: 600mm


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[Axel Hildebrandt]

Congratulations, Chris! Very cool capture.

[Harshad Barve]

Congratulations Chris , Mighty fine image

[Fabs Forns]

Terrific capture, Chris, congratulations!

[arash_hazeghi]

congrats chris one of my fav of yours.

[Chris van Rooyen]

THanks guys!

[Tim Munsey]

Congrats to you and the bird, a fine display.

Tim

[Ken Watkins]

About as perfect as you can get:)

[denise ippolito]

Fantastic image! Congrats!:)

[Roman Kurywczak]

Just an amazing shot of an amazing bird!!! Congrats Chris!!!

[Lorant Voros]

Well deserved for this amazing image. Big congratulations, Chris.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

WOW!

[Morkel Erasmus]

top notch image Chris and well deserved...

[Colin Knight]

Stunning!

[Kiran Poonacha]

Bhai, I love you bhai... great work..

[Nate Chappell]

Congrats Chris, spectacular!

[D. Robert Franz]

Wow what a bird and a great image, congrats....