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WC#685 Spring's Here
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WC#685 Spring's Here

by Dennis Plank

Gallery: Weekly ChallengePosted May 20, 201567 views5 comments

I posted another from this series of a Savannah Sparrow singing on a spring prairie in the Avian Gallery a while back, but this one has a better singing pose and I think evokes Spring better.  The yellow in the bg is our native buttercup and a lomatium known as spring gold (one of the earliest spring flowers here).

7Dii, 500mm f4 ISL + 1.4TC, balanced on vest on car window, f/8, 1/2500, iso 800, aperture priority, partial metering, no compensation.  Processed in LR5 & CS6.  Cropped to 15.2MP.  Taken at 8:15 am on April 27th (spring's a bit earlier in the NW than the NE).

Your comments and criticisms are always appreciated.

Thanks for looking,

Comments

5 comments
Comment posted by Mark Seaver on May 20, 2015 at 9:42 PM

Dennis, this is a fine look at this sparrow clearly singing like crazy.  Excellent catch on his pose and details in his feathers, he's a beauty.  The background works very well also, with the matching yellows and spring greens.  I had to pull out my calculator to see your equivalent focal length...1120mm.  I know from experience how close you have to be to get a bird this size to occupy a good portion of the frame, but I'm still going back and forth about all the negative space.  It does create a good sense of an open field but I wonder if a square crop with the bird offset wouldn't convey pretty much the same feeling while letting the bird pull more attention.

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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on May 21, 2015 at 10:09 AM

Hi  Dennis crying  i  love this  beautiful  sping scene  that you  wonderfully captured .....    the pose of the sparrow, and the  very  fine  background  make  this a delightful   spring  scene.devil

 

 

Albert Darmo

Canada

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Comment posted by Gary McGhee on May 22, 2015 at 6:46 AM

A wonderful photo Dennis and deservedly of far more attention. Beautifully isolated and in full voice too.

Gary.

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Comment posted by Jerry Austin on May 22, 2015 at 7:01 PM

This is just supberb. The bird stads out so much the image looks three dimensional. Great capture.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on May 23, 2015 at 5:31 PM

Dennis: Marvelous BG and I can just hear this little guy greeting the morning. Nicely done.>=))>

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