Celebrate the season...

Gallery: AvianPosted November 26, 2009152 views10 comments

Happy Thanksgiving, all! This is from the spring, a Merriam's gobbler.

D200, 400 mm, crop vertical from horizontal, iso 200, 1/100, f7.1

Comments

10 comments

Comment posted by Balan Vinod on November 26, 2009 at 4:53 AM

Lon ...Love the way you have composed the image ..its good ...I may not have wanted a bit of the bottom ..well thats personal ...wonderful image anyways ..

Balan Vinod

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Comment posted by Carrie O'Brien-Sib on November 26, 2009 at 6:09 AM

Oh so wonderful, Lon! I LOVE IT!!!! Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!

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Comment posted by Keith Bauer on November 26, 2009 at 8:20 AM

I really like the composition of this image. Very well done. A great example of "you don't have to see the whole subject" to get a great image.

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Comment posted by Neil Rossmiller on November 26, 2009 at 8:36 AM

Great composition Lon!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
Neil

Registered on October 30, 2009, 156 Posts, 749 Comments

Comment posted by Sally King on November 26, 2009 at 11:48 AM

That is some gobbler. Really like how you've framed the subject. He looks just about ready for Thanksgiving dinner.

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Comment posted by Wayne Willison on November 26, 2009 at 1:45 PM

Happy Thanksgiving to you too. Good intimate portrait. Like the detailed color. If the shot is from the spring I guess this gobbler didn't make it to your table today.

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Comment posted by David Sparks on November 26, 2009 at 3:25 PM

I like the composition and the range of wonderful colors.

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Comment posted by Ron Dudley on November 26, 2009 at 7:48 PM

David said it perfectly for me Lon. A unique perspective on our gobbler friend.

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Comment posted by Mia McPherson on November 26, 2009 at 8:58 PM

Lon,

This is very lovely, Happy Thanksgiving to you & yours.

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Comment posted by Craig Strand on November 26, 2009 at 10:22 PM

Wonderful image Lon, very unique and pleasing angle plus composition. Happy Thanksgiving, well done!

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