Strutting tom turkey (new larger repost in comments)

Gallery: AvianPosted February 22, 2011198 views7 comments

I don't have many avian pictures but this one I took awhile back with my point and shoot camera. With some fixing in Elements I thought this turkey make quite a striking statement. I guess that's the purpose--to impress the ladies! We have a flock of over 30 wild turkeys that cruise our neighborhood during the winter looking for droppings from bird feeders. They can be quite entertaining to watch out our kitchen window.

Camera: Kodak C875 zoom at 20mm. F/3.6 at 1/400 sec. ISO 64

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7 comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on February 22, 2011 at 11:12 AM

Wish the image was larger, but looks well done. Nice exposure and detail. Thanks for sharing.

Registered on September 12, 2009, 2120 Posts, 6455 Comments

Comment posted by Carol Hyman on February 22, 2011 at 11:45 AM

Hi Carolyn,

Welcome to NPN.

Your Turkey is quite handsome against the snow.

And there's for sure, nothing wrong with shooting with a P&S. I do it frequently. I too wish you had posted a larger image. Here at NPN, the image can be 720 pixels on it's longest size and up to 300 Kb in size. That helps us when critiquing images.

Cheers,

Carol

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Comment posted by Barbara Graham on February 22, 2011 at 11:53 AM

Carolyn, I'd love to see this larger. You can actually do a repost at the 720-pixel, 300-Kb size in a reply here. In this very small version this is absolutely beautiful.

Registered on July 27, 2010, 1310 Posts, 5035 Comments

Comment posted by Carolyn Derstine on February 22, 2011 at 12:45 PM

Ok, I will try to post this at a larger size. Hopefully it doesn't look distorted. I'm still new to all this resizing.

Registered on February 16, 2011, 610 Posts, 3684 Comments

Comment posted by Barbara Graham on February 22, 2011 at 12:47 PM

The larger it gets the more beautiful it gets, which is awesome.

If you want to, now you can edit (from the index of posts) your post and put + repost in the title so that people know there's a repost to look at.

Great job to get the larger version posted, and this really is a beautiful image.

Registered on July 27, 2010, 1310 Posts, 5035 Comments

Comment posted by Terry Sohl on February 22, 2011 at 1:02 PM

Very nice! It's a terrific pose from him, and nicely captured. Thx for posting the bigger version, it looks quite good. It's tough to judge from just the smaller version.

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Comment posted by John Tobias on February 22, 2011 at 9:29 PM

Thanks for the repost. Still looks great. Welcome to NPN.

Registered on September 12, 2009, 2120 Posts, 6455 Comments