I usually don't put in comments during voting, just at the end before roll over, but I'm so excited, and completely floored!! 39 votes at 7.46!! In a free study!
It's going to be a really long week...
[Jun. 7th, 2012 09:07:58 PM]
Last 3 hours, and it's at 7.55. 19 comments and 4 favs. I am so psyched!! It's been just an unbelievable week. I kept waiting for it to go down, and it actually dipped to 7.39 about 1.5 days ago. And the skyrocketed! I still don't quite believe it's real...
The bluebirds are back. Well, they're not back. This is a different pair that started nesting in the bluebird box quite awhile ago. They didn't find the mealworms that I put out on the deck, so I started putting them out on the sidewalk. When the found them, the next time I'd move the dish a little closer to to the deck. After about 6 days, I moved it onto the deck and they've been coming ever since.
It's hard to get a shot in my backyard, because it's north facing, and such a dark background with all the trees. This morning, the sunlight was so incredibly warm and beautiful. I took about 400 shots that morning, and had about 30 that I liked. This one went above and beyond the 30.
I was going to submit it for symmetry, but I was afraid it wasn't symmetric enough. It never occurred to me that it would do this well in a free study. I was hoping for a 6.7.
But I'll take this!
Thank you for the incredible comments and all the favs!
Here's the original -- yes, it really was taken with the 100 mm fixed.
There really wasn't much in the way of editing this -- mostly working with the tones.
I had to crop it in close because of the glass below. I would have liked to have more space under the bird.
Statistics
Place: 1 out of 273 Avg (all users): 7.5462 Avg (commenters): 8.6111 Avg (participants): 7.6322 Avg (non-participants): 7.3125 Views since voting: 6374 Views during voting: 255 Votes: 119 Comments: 70 Favorites: 20 (view)
Congrats on the ribbon. Did you notice all three ribbons are or have birds? LOL! I was thinking, looking at this again, this is where a better camera/lens comes in handy. I could never crop that small from one of my images.
Incredible. You can train your bluebirds with a bell. If you feed them at the same time and place, every time you put the mealworms out ding the bell one time. It shouldn't take more than a week or two.
I was rather busy during the voting period and never had a chance to vote on this image. I can assure you however that had I had the opportunity this image would have warranted a score of 10. I have a full appreciation of just how difficult it is to capture a good image of a bird in flight and cannot help but marvel at your abilities.
Morning Light
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
