Widow

[Stephen Earle]

Longtailed-widowbird photographed at Rietvlei Nature Reserve, Pretoria, South Africa.

1DMKIV
ISO 800
F 5.6
1/3200
500 F4 + 1.4 converter

[Ofer Levy]

WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[denise ippolito]

Wow is right ! Beautiful pose and lighting. The BG is gorgeous. The tail is amazing and well shown.

[Morkel Erasmus]

probably the best widowbird shot I've seen in a very long time Stephen...gorgeous light, perfect pose, perfect exposure...

[Jonathan Ashton]

Great shot right place right time and ready! Well done!

[James Salywoda]

Just stunning beautiful pose gorgeous colors and such an awesome bird.

[RakeshDhareshwar]

Cant believe this shot !! The exposure is awesome and the wing position and the catchlight !!!!! How did you manage this ??

[Daniel Bailey]

UNBELIEVABLE SHOT!!!! WALL HANGER!

[Bryan Hix]

Love everything about it! Congrats on a great image.

[Tony Whitehead]

Great job, Stephen. Superb pose and BG. A little more light on the far wing would have been nice but you can't choose where they will perform. Rietvlei seems a great place for these. They were in the process of moulting into their eclipse plumage when I was there in April.

[Steve Uffman]

I am not qualified to add anything to the photography critique but I know an amazing shot of an amazing bird. The birds of South Africa are indeed phenomenal and you have captured this one very well. thanks for sharing

[Stu Bowie]

Hey Stephen, comp works well for this flying posture, and you have nailed the expose nicely here. Having said that, maybe adding back some blacks may work too. Just love that Rietvlei BG. Well captured.

[Charles Scheffold]

The vertical crop shows off the tail well. Love it.

thanks
Charles

[arash_hazeghi]

wow! this is super

[Pieter de Waal]

Excellent image Stephen, great posture and exposure with beautiful background.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Stunning. great light, details, exposure, Bg, pose and comp. what fun it must be photographing this fella....

[Kiran Poonacha]

You guys are having a ball