Pixels at an Exhibition: King of Crabapples

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

All birds all the time out here these days.

Tom Hilton said...: Lovely.; March 15, 2011 at 8:42 AM
ahab said...: Thanks! He's got a mate now. With a tree like that in his territory it was never going to take long.; March 15, 2011 at 11:29 AM
Generik said...: Beautiful color, really like the DOF.; March 15, 2011 at 3:15 PM
ahab said...: Thanks!

I'd been shooting him intermittently for days in cold light but we finally got a partly sunny afternoon with stunning light coming between and being amplified by clouds. Meanwhile the mountain (hill, really) across the lake remained in shadow, that's the blue/gray background. It was one of those moments when you know it's all coming together for you.

I got other terrific takes before and after this, several of them with him pounding crabapples like nobody's business. I think he may have been buzzed off some partially fermented ones. He was rampaging!

How about the size of that gut?; March 15, 2011 at 6:30 PM
Anonymous said...: Beautiful photo.; March 15, 2011 at 7:28 PM
E-6 said...: Fantastic colors. (I was wondering what that beautiful blue/gray hue was--a hill, huh?)

And yeah, I noticed the gut. ;); March 15, 2011 at 8:21 PM
Donna said...: glorious.; March 16, 2011 at 3:38 PM