Where has it gone ?

[Pieter de Waal]

European Roller photographed in Kruger National Park. A summer migrant from Siberia and India.

50D/EF500f4+1.4/f8 @ 1/1600/iso400/EC -0.33 - Bean bag FF. Removed some twigs from under the tail.

C&C allways appreciated.

[James Salywoda]

Beautiful bird excellent pose captured the perch works well with this pose. Awesome!

[Dumay de Boulle]

Very nice IQ in this image Pieter...Nice soft light and colors

[George Cottay]

Great image. Even in it's compressed state it holds up very well zoomed to cover an entire large monitor screen.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Very nice pose captured. With this pose, a little room below might work better. If mine, I'd also add a little canvas behind the tail.

[Brendan Dozier]

Nice pose & capture. What an interesting and unique looking bird, Peter. Looks a bit like plaid coloring on part of the wing. Good details, eye contact, agree maybe some more room on L & bottom. Well done!

[Todd Frost]

Love the way it's pose follows the line of the perch. Well done.
TFS
Todd

[Stu Bowie]

Tack sharp Pieter, and you have captured great feather detail. The colours have come out nicely too. Adding a bit more space on the left will work.

[Ken Watkins]

What I like best about this is the colour of the bird it is a real as real can be. They are tather dull in comparison to some other Rollers but I like the fact that you have left it that way.

All this plus an unusual pose, very nice indeed

[Pieter de Waal]

Thanks all, I appreciate your comments and agree that more room bottom and left will be an improvement, will try adding canvas as this is almost FF.