Honey I'm home... and I had a hard day

Your thoughts please on the originality and overall quality of this

photo. Manipulation included cloning out the number "22" on the side

of the bird house and some purple martin's which were chasing the

female, normal cropping and a little punch to the contrast.

Great focus, capture and shallow depth of field. Title is also perfect.

Well done!

A lot of skill with a little luck on the side.

 

Chris

Think this is the Eastern Bluebird (sialia sialis)

Great image! Well done.

This is indeed the Eastern Bluebird. Taken at Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary, Maryland. I have a couple of other shots of this pair at the box in my folder. I found a box with nest, without an attending adult. I figured they were out on their morning feed, so I set up the camera and waited.

Outstanding Work.

Great! ciao

Simply a Great Photo!

Amazing shot! How long have you been waited? I admire your tenacity and patience!

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Excellent photo! Congrats.

Fantastic capture! Glad you waited and we got to see this. I think it would be interesting to see the original also if you could... Excellent work Stephanie!

Thanks all for the comments. I think Chris K. got it backwards though, there was much more luck than skill.

 

I can't really tell you how long I was at this box. Several hours total probably. I went early (not early enough) and stayed till around noon. I was shooting other things, but this box had the majority of my attention.

 

But in that time, I can tell you that I photographed two white-tailed deer leaping across the cornfield, 3 osprey flying around the silo their nest was on (3.. she says scratching her head!) an adult Bald Eagle fly through the corner of my len's reach, and what I think was probably a Harrier Hawk checking out the area adjacent to the tree line. I never did get over near the pond areas to see if I could get into position to shoot Geese and probably a fair number of sandpipers and some species of stilt.

 

So all in all, I had a blast that day. Heaven, pure heaven.

I stand by my comment...

If you weren't skillful(and patient), you wouldn't have been ready.

 

I'm looking forward to more!

Pour me a cold one, and oh by the way

Your picture promises more wonderful shots to come...

This is an excellent image, Stephanie! I'm not always one for bird pictures but this really is special! I like the action, movement in the wings and the overall DOF. Nice going! :)

Just lovely!

 

Fantastic Capture

Fantastic timing & a good amount of skill. Great capture

Wonderful, great capture at the right moment, Sthephanie, congratulations!!

This is the Eastern Bluebird. The male is on the box and the femaile is coming in.

 

Very nice shot.

A happy moment!