Longtailed Widowbird

[Stephen Earle]

Rietvlei Nature reserve, Pretoria South Africa.

1DMKIV
500 F4 + 1.4 CONV.
1/3200
F 5.6
ISO 500

[Mark Young]

Lovely image, nicely exposed. Great to see all that tail included.

[Dave Leroy]

A very interesting looking bird and long pano crop works well to accentuate the long tail feathers.

Dave

[denise ippolito]

That is one long tail! Well captured and exposed!

[Randy Stout]

Stephen:

Like the amazing tail streaming out behind, we often see them drooping down. Nice job getting it parallel to the sensor, so the entire tail is in focus. Nicely exposed, good background, nice little head turn!

Cheers

Randy

[Sidharth Kodikal]

This is a stunning image, Stephen. Love the action frozen, the exposure and that pano crop. Lovely HA and BG to boot. Great work. Thanks for sharing.

[Bill Dix]

Superb. Terrific pano crop with streaming tail, and great color bg.

[Doug Brown]

Beautifully captured! Those tail feathers are incredible! Love the BG and the head turn.

[Peter Farrell]

Excellent capture. Great exposure and detail. Perfect composition for this bird.
Peter

[Stephen Earle]

Thanks everyone for the comments. I was worried about the comp. but it seems to have met with your approval.

[Chris Martinez]

I really like the eye contact, the bird streaming by with that wild tail and the cheeky glance at the photographer