MOTIF: Curved-billed Thrasher

Posted by Alan Murphy on Sun Oct 09, 2005 8:34 am

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Curved-billed Thrasher Roma, TX

D1X, 600, 1/200 @ f4, ISO 400, Fill flash.

Not only was it dark and overcast, but it was raining. Only a few rain streaks were on the image so I cloned them out.

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by Mark Farag on Sun Oct 09, 2005 9:01 am

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Wow, lovely image, Alan! Love that BG and pose.

By the way, thanks for the tips about my shot with the perch the other day.

Thanks for sharing.

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by RichardMittleman/Gon2Foto on Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:22 am

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Another lovely image. Dare a say that a slight head turn would have made it better?

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by Christina Evans on Sun Oct 09, 2005 11:00 am

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This is lovely -- great save. I like the way the branches frame the thrasher and complement its eye color.

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by Wayne Nicholas on Sun Oct 09, 2005 11:51 am

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Sweet, Alan. Love the fruiting perch. Nice comp all around.

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by Greg Downing on Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:07 pm

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Sweet Alan! The berry in his mouth is icing!

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by Miguel Lasa on Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:33 pm

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Everything works perfect in this wonderful shot Alan :)

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by john on Sun Oct 09, 2005 2:18 pm

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We should all have bad light like this

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by Alan Melle on Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:52 pm

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Wonderful light and color in this one. Love that orange eye! Very nice!

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by rich098 on Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:16 pm

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Sweet shot! :)

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by Bruce DiVaccaro on Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:23 pm

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Alan,

It looks like it was a beautiful day from here. The berries add so much to the image. Very nice shot.

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by Juan E. Bahamon on Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:34 pm

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Alan:

I like the habitat and of course the bird is great.

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by KK Hui on Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:45 pm

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As expected, Alan! :roll:

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Beautiful shot indeed ...

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by Mike Wilson on Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:19 pm

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Nice work in some overcast light. Definitely not bad light though. Looks sweet to me. Just the right amount of fill too.

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by Ofer Levy on Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:51 am

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Wonderful shot Alan! :) :) I love how the orange of the eye looks similar to the fruits. I also like the natural framing created by the branches - excellent!

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by Terence P. Brashear on Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:42 am

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Berries....must bring huge supply of berries when shooting images

Beautiful work.

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by Mike Danzenbaker on Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:03 pm

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This week's motif is a little funny to me, since I consider cloudy/overcast the ideal lighting for every shooting situation except when there's sky in the BG. Usually when shooting birds in this kind of situation, unless the sun is very low, I usually just sit back and wait for clouds to come before even trying to shoot. So, I consider the lighting you have here to be very good, even with rain! On my recent trip to Trinidad, some of my favorite shots were those taken in a rainstorm (but before the subjects became soaking wet!).

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by Debski on Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:45 am