impressing the ladies

[rdking647]

strutting his stuff

 

[Trever1t]

Beautiful animal! I like the crop on #2 Wish the pic was larger so I could see the details!

 

[mishele]

Hmmmmm.......I wish you would post pictures that were a little bigger. I would love to see the detail in #2!!

 

[rdking647]

all of my pics are clickable to my flickr photostream for bigget views. but heres some bigger ones anyway

 

[Trever1t]

that's better! #2 is awesome. You neglected to post a link to your Flickr photostream

 

[rdking647]

just click on the picture. that will take you to it.
or try this
Flickr: rdking647's Photostream

 

[mishele]

I like #2, just wish his head was turned a little bit....=) so we could have some eye contact. Oh and thanks for posting bigger pics!!

 

[rdking647]

like this?

 

[Frequency]

These are terrifically good in large size!!! bravo :thumbsup:

 

[mishele]

Still like everything about #2 more. I wish it was a complete side view of his head w/ the background of 2.....lol I know I'm asking a lot. Animals don't always model the way you want....lol
Still nice shot.

 

[Davor]

Always loved these animals and jealous that i never got a chance to photograph one. Good work

 

[molested_cow]

Peacocks are LOUD! They run around everywhere at Atlanta zoo and always making such loud and annoying sounds, but easy to shoot.

The second shot is nice, but I think the image can be brighter in general to emphasize the colors. May be you can play with the saturation.

One side story. My coworkers and I were talking about nature's defense mechanism over lunch one day and one guy mentioned that the peacock species focuses on trying to impress its mates for the sake of procreation and evolved into this flamboyant form, but at the same time, becomes less and less defensive against predators. Then the other guy said that may not be true, cus the lions will have more feathers to spit out now, so it may not even be worth the effort.