House Finch Plays the Trumpet???

[Doug Brown]

From my SE Arizona trip, and taken at Bill Forbes' incredible Elephant Head pond. This House Finch looks to me like it's doing its best Miles Davis impersonation!



Canon 5D Mark III, 600mm + 1.4x, f/7.1, 1/1250, ISO 400, manual exposure, tripod, blind

[Randy Stout]

Doug:

This is lots of fun! I can almost hear the tune!

Your bird is sharp, well exposed.

I might consider burning in the bright red clump of flowers at top, so they don't pull our eye quite so strongly away from the bird. Like the diagonal perch.

Cheers'


Randy

[Stan Cunningham]

Bill's place is probably my favorite place to shoot, only problem is which bird to shoot.
Great shot and the flower above does not bother me.

[jack williamson]

Neat image Doug. Well exposed and sharp, great bg and perch.

Jack

[Joe Senzatimore]

Wonderful shot Doug. Nice light , comp. and color. Sweet perch as well. That place is magic. One of my favs. to go to.

[Doug Brown]

Wonderful shot Doug. Nice light , comp. and color. Sweet perch as well. That place is magic. One of my favs. to go to.

Thanks Joe. This was my first trip to Elephant Head.

[Norm Dulak]

From my SE Arizona trip, and taken at Bill Forbes' incredible Elephant Head pond. This House Finch looks to me like it's doing its best Miles Davis impersonation!



Canon 5D Mark III, 600mm + 1.4x, f/7.1, 1/1250, ISO 400, manual exposure, tripod, blind

Pretty neat Doug.

But when I was at the Great Lakes Naval Station many years ago, I attended a performance by Louis Armstrong on the trumpet. I was amazed by how much his cheeks puffed out when he played. What's with this finch? His cheeks didn't seem to puff out at all!

[dankearl]

Funny shot, Nice perch and I agree about toning down the flower just a tad.

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful and colorful image. Sharp and well composed.

[Doug Brown]

Thank you all for the feedback!

[Ofer Levy]

Beautiful image! A bit big in the frame for me.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Very unusual and I think the colours and detail are excellent. I would suggest however, if it is a crop, to reduce it a little bit.

[Doug Brown]

Very unusual and I think the colours and detail are excellent. I would suggest however, if it is a crop, to reduce it a little bit.

Did you mean to go a little looser with the crop?