Blue On Blue- Portrait of a Bluebird

|)\/8 · Feb 22, 2009

Enjoying the sun.

lockwood81 · Feb 23, 2009

Wow you got up close and personal with this guy. I like it.

LaFoto · Feb 23, 2009

Lovely!
How come he let you get up this close?

|)\/8 · Feb 23, 2009

LaFoto said:
Lovely!
How come he let you get up this close?

I was really not that close, probably about 12 feet (3.65 m) away in a blind, so the image is cropped. One of the advantages to having a 15.1 megapixel camera,

. Here is the original the portrait was cropped from.

LaFoto · Feb 23, 2009

I also like the original frame, though in that, of course, the "blue on blue"-theme is broken up a bit.
For my "up and personal" garden bird photos I have to wait for the birds to become tame (or shouting at me - or most of all at our cat - in order to defend their nest), otherwise I would never be able to take such bird photos. Like_here

matt-l · Feb 23, 2009

Seen this on the Canon forum. Great Shot!!

Dagwood56 · Feb 23, 2009

Beautiful!

R9R Photography · Feb 23, 2009

Great capture, beautiful colors!!

:thumbup:

uplander · Feb 23, 2009

I really like the cropped shot.

The uncropped would have been a great stock shot had it been upon an old fashioned pasture post like this shot below

|)\/8 · Feb 24, 2009

LaFoto said:
I also like the original frame, though in that, of course, the "blue on blue"-theme is broken up a bit.
For my "up and personal" garden bird photos I have to wait for the birds to become tame (or shouting at me - or most of all at our cat - in order to defend their nest), otherwise I would never be able to take such bird photos. Like_here

Nice shot, that bird had a mouthful. Yeah, to get close I bought a small one man portable blind.

uplander said:
I really like the cropped shot.

The uncropped would have been a great stock shot had it been upon an old fashioned pasture post like this shot below

I do happen to have a couple of shots that are similar: