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Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Abra


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study 2011-04 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L IS USM
Location: Audley
Date: Apr 8, 2011
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250 sec
Galleries: Nature, Birds
Date Uploaded: Apr 8, 2011

 While out shooting dragonflies for the Cool Colors Challenge this guy flew in. It’s only the first week of April so this is more of a filler as I hope to get better shots during the month (going camping soon). I really like the composition the bird allowed for as well as the bokeh effect. I wish the branch behind it wasn’t coming out of its head but I feel it’s too significant to the shot and cloning it out may result in a DQ. Ha! As if I would ever finish high enough or produce an interesting enough shot to be required to submit an original. But rules are rules and I am a conformer.

If this stays as my entry I believe there is enough eye candy here to score in the mid to high 5’s. I’m still hopeful to get a shot that I really like and get my standard high 4 to low 5’s.

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Place: 184 out of 301
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Votes: 145
Comments: 7
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 05/09/2011 11:28:01 PM
I love the blue specks on his wings!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/07/2011 05:33:45 PM
Now I'm going to have that song stuck in my head! Nice shot, though. I think I'd blur the background a bit more to soften some of those bright branches.
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 05/07/2011 03:36:04 PM
We learned that song in elementary school and I still remember it. Nice light and bokeh here.
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 05/07/2011 09:31:01 AM
He doesn't look very merry though ;-)
Gorgeous bokeh and lighting here. I would have blurred the leaves on the left a little more though. 7
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 05/06/2011 07:55:14 PM
This is excellent!
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 05/06/2011 05:03:38 PM
I see the kookaburra, I don't see the gum tree. Nice lights on his wings.
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 05/01/2011 07:53:45 AM
Wonderful bokeh.
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