White-fronted Bee-eater

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

Taken from a riverbank below which a colony of these birds are nesting.

1D MKIV
600mm f/4
ss 1/2500
f/7.1
ISO 1000

[Randy Stout]

Gerrie:

Well exposed, sharp, dragonfly is great, nice background.
For most birds, the flat across wing pose doesn't show off their details and colors as well as full up or down. The fact that the bird is angled down slightly does help somewhat here.
If you have a little more clean canvas above, I might consider adding that back in.

Cheers

Randy

[Lorant Voros]

I find it an unusual and interesting image. Sharp and nice eye contact and the dragonfly is a great bonus. Nice work.

[Arthur Morris]

This is a fairly amazing capture. It was somewhat bad luck that the dragonfly is blocking the other eye so badly. I can't even imagine getting something like this in sharp focus.

[Karen Summers]

fabulous shot very well caught

[Geraldo Hofmann]

Congratulations for this stunning image... well I would be truly very happy with this image.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Dragonfly takes this one several notches up. Very good execution too...small birds in flight are quite hard.

[ann shiller]

Love the action... a great catch. How many did you take?

[Ken Watkins]

Very unusual, the position of the dragonfly could have been better, but everything else is spot on.

The nesting sites are usually total mayhem so managing to pick this shot out is remarkable.

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

Thank you for viewing & commenting everyone. It is much appreciated.

I have a couple that are in sharp focus Ann.:)

[Stu Bowie]

You nailed this one Gerrie. Great head on capture, with good sharpness on the head. Of course, his catch is a huge bonus. Killer BG too. I didnt get a single afternoon shot.:o

[Dudley Watson]

Well captured. Lovely detail on dragon fly. :):)

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

Thank you for viewing & commenting Stu & Dudley. It is much appreciated.:)