Swamp Sparrow

Gallery: AvianPosted July 11, 2012154 views10 comments

Caught this sparrow singing in the middle of some cattails last week on what turned out to be one of our hottest days (90+ by 8 AM).

1D3/600IS+1.4x, 1/800s@F7.1, ISO640, Tripod.
Location: Horicon.
Cropped to 56% of original. Processed for the web.

Thanks for looking.

Comments

10 comments

Comment posted by Richard Ditch on July 11, 2012 at 11:08 PM

Terrific - I love the pose and setting.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on July 11, 2012 at 11:29 PM

Beautiful, Govind. I love the bg textures. Though I'm sure it's natural, it feels tome like it might have a bit more impact if you dropped the brightness just a bit.

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on July 12, 2012 at 7:03 AM

Wonderful singing pose, a nice setting also Govind.
Good looking BG too. Only small suggestion for improvement is too remove the bit of OOF yellow URC-side.
Well done

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Comment posted by Ray Whitt on July 12, 2012 at 9:13 AM

Beautiful colors and a nice pose. Love the composition.

Ray

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on July 12, 2012 at 1:47 PM

Delightful!
Great pose, and love the comp and colours. Perfect DOF to render some of the reeds OOF.
IMO, the heavy dark frame detracts a little -
Sandy

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Comment posted by Cheryl Molennor on July 12, 2012 at 2:32 PM

Love the calling pose and the great bg colors.

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Comment posted by jack jaeger jr on July 12, 2012 at 4:05 PM

Great shot wish you could have included sound !

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Comment posted by Randy Bacon on July 12, 2012 at 7:25 PM

Beautiful pose, setting and action, what more could you ask for. Well done.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on July 13, 2012 at 9:12 PM

Excellent comp and calling pose, I could see lowering the exposure a bit here.

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Comment posted by Simon Bennett on July 14, 2012 at 8:35 PM

Nice singing pose.

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