Bronzewing

I like this a LOT. Beautiful photo

Beautiful photo and a nice thought behind it!

This photo is very nice, its unbelievable, I like it very much. 10-10 ;)

Great photo but most of all I appreciated the caring you displayed for this once living creature.

I completly aggree with ken. Thanks for sharing...

This is a beautiful image, and a touching story.

Excellent macro work. There are a number of people on this site that could learn from you and this image what macro is all about. This photo contains all three elements that are necessary for a good photo, composition, impact and technical ability, all of which you handled extremely well.

wow!

1st of all I like the fact that all of your pictures show detail. At work I use to use a Magnifying Scope to look at tissue and foreign bodies, and I was always taken by the colors, lattice and detail that was previously unnoticed.

 

This is why I like you pictures they let me view the previously unobservable.

 

Gorgeous!

I have never seen anything like this! This is the true color of the bird's feathers? Unbelievable. I love how the upper left portion actually looks very much like a black and white photo.. The texture is sublime... and then... that unbelievable metalic color toward the right on the feathers. I'm awestruck!

Thanks for your kind remarks on this image all. To Mary - yes, a Bronzewing is really so beautifully coloured, no jiggery-pokery with the colours at all. This would be diminished with a "whole bird" shot hence my opting for macro. Go well and regards.

Beautiful picture and story, are these pigeons common, do they look so colorful in real life? Agreed on the cropping, not so sure if I'd like the photo if I knew I was looking at a dead bird.

I spend a couple of weeks in Australia most years and can confirm the ubiquitousness of these beautiful creatures in that country. Tim, I have said in emails to photo.net friends that I too was uncomfortable with the shoot - except that my initial reaction was "God, how can such beauty die?" Then realised the answer hung round my neck.

Despite my comments in the technical details box, there is every chance this winged iridescence was unconscious for a few minutes prior to death because its feathers were so warm and the eyes slightly animated (in a pleading sort of way) as I flushed its mouth with water from a syringe. So you might not be looking at a "dead bird" after all ;-)

 

Let's not permit morbidity's entrance here - that bird will NEVER be dead so long as I, the image, and the image's admirers survive.

Thanks for stopping by, regards.

 

Beautiful combination of colors. And story.

Emotional beauty. Excellent. Blago

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Sorry about the bird. However, it is an exceptionaly good picture. The colors, the sharpness, the composition, I'm awestruck by the beauty in this picture.

Beautiful. I wonder if any birds harmed during the shooting? Just kidding. This is outstanding.

Print it, frame it, put it on a wall! I love the color eince it is brilliant but doesn't overpower the photo since it is balanced by the white wing feathers.

outstanding, beautiful job

Seven, I think, while taking a photograph, interaction happens on many levels, which may influence the final picture by embedding a kind of message in it. Here your compassion for the creature has been rewarded with a photo so powerful and beautiful as this one.

 

wonderful clarity, focus and colour, brilliant photo

it's great. congratulations Seven.

 

Thanks for making this available to all!!

Seven, this photograph is the best I have seen on this site (I have not seen all of them). I wonder how many shots on photo.net got so many 10/10.