Mourning Dove Scores A Seed!

[Daniel Cadieux]

These guys love to feed on the ground, and for a while now I've wanted a low to the ground perspective of such behaviour from one of them. This guy was rather oblivious to my crawling in the grass towards it (...using my car as a partial blind) and afforded me the image I wanted of this species. Always fun to try stuff with the more common birds :-)

Canon 7D + 100-400L @400mm, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/200s., f/6.3, ISO 800 (settings histogram checked), natural light, handheld, one stray grass in lower left cloned out.

[Sachin Saraf]

This image has a very nice feel to it Daniel...Lovely low angle soft light, sharp and your composition works very well here..but I am just curios why did you not have complete bird in frame?

[Dave Leroy]

Lovely pose Daniel and perfect timing with the seed. Agree is has a very nice soft feel to it. Complimentary bg and good skills to get so close and still have a relaxed bird.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Beautiful springtime shot Daniel. I love the soft pastel colors and the seed in the bill a plus

[gail bisson]

This image should be in the theme category! Lovely complimentary BG and I like the splash of red in front of the dove. Unusual comp but it works for me. I could see this image with some off the left as well,
Gail

[Daniel Cadieux]

Thanks guys! Sachin, I did take some of the whole bird but I am a fan of portraits such as this so I opted for this presentation.

[Karl Egressy]

Saw it before, got interrupted back then. I really like this picture with all the great colurs and the soft light on the bird, Daniel. Besides, it is my wife's favorite bird species.