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Beautiful colors on this Honeycreeper I like the OOF BG an active pose. If this were mine I would try to even out the tonalities between the head and the rest of the bird.
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Sharp with a neat bird and the BLUE is as I remember it from Panama. The stick through the neck, the awkward pose, and the uneven light are all negatives... BTW, I am pretty sure that the species is Shiny Honeycreeper. Love those bright yellow feet.
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Hi Arthur
Sorry, you have that wrong, species is Shining - Cyanerpes lucidus.
Pose is typical, as they are very acrobatic, and search frantically along these little vine stems for spiders and other small insects, so I feel the pose on vine is "relative" to behaviour. Indeed they often hang upside down on the tiniest vine ends.
Hear what you say about the stick/kneck, naturally would be better without but beyond me to remove because of the vines I think. At least you love the feet!
Thanks for your comments which are appreciated as ever
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Thanks for the species correction. The bird in Panama is very similar. Many images that depict interesting behavior are simply not pleasing photographs and they do not always make good images. Yes, the bird is where the bird was....
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Nice one! these tiny birds are a little hard to photograph since they are very active and you have done well here. The one on Garrigues book, is that deep blue, well, you know that books are printed and is very hard to render the right colors some times, have a look at the green ibis, in the same book and let's talk later. In any case I prefer that book over many other.