Ice covered red maple with a Black Chickkadee - Parus atricapillus Linnaeus - Mésange à tête noir).

Ice covered red maple with a Black Chickkadee (Parus atricapillus

Linnaeus) (in french : Mésange à tête noir). Shot taken at Base de

plein air in Sainte-Foy.

A very beautiful shot Gaetan.

Clever but sadly the bird's eye does not seem in focus.

Very nice and good bird!!!!!

that's a nice and somehow different bird shot. Congrats!

Nice shot, good composition. It looks like a set of ice creams for birds.

Very nice composition. I think the bird wonders about her food strange form......... Pnina

belle originalité et moment exclusif!

Bravo!

Bird is out of focus... perhaps your shutter speed was a tad bit slow as the tree is sharp.

agree with greg, bird is out of focus and and branches are distracting, background has lot of stuff going on ...

I like the way the bird is looking at the ice, like he's wondering where the food is. I wish the bird was sharper and perhaps with more of a catchlight in the eye, but I still like the lighting and over all composition.

Excellent subject and composition. Unfortunately with the poor tool used, the photog had no badly required f2, that would have made the birdie jump right out at us.... The brilliant natural color got lost in the pixels, clarity got lost in the focusing.

Nice capture and composition!

Bien cadrée, bonne netteté, enfin... une très belle image!

Additional informations about this photo : Exposure time: 1/275s; F-number: 5.1; ISO: 100. It was a clear sky and cold temperature. With the limitation of the coolpix 4500 I was not able to get a faster exposure time and I can't change the F-number because I had to take the maximum of 4X optical of this camera with the brightest F-number available. Metering is quite difficult with the snow in the background and to have a clear picture must take the photo at 100 ISO. A digital SLR would have take a much finer photo with the larger CCD captor. Another factor, this king of birds are very quick, you do not have much time to prepare. Thanks all for your comments.

Merci Armindo pour vos bons commentaires. Vous écrivez un très bon français.

Great Shot !

I dont understand your reasoning, sorry, Gaetan. You are using a blunt, chipped new fangled chisel, to carve a Chippendale chair. Why not use a simple SLR camera, with a spot meter and lens with manual f2 selection, and film.. You have a great capture, but no result.

Very beautiful this image!!!!

It's not the easiest target to make so attractive, well done.

very pretty picture...

Turk, obviously you have never used a 4500 Nikon. Many of us shoot both in film and digital and don't need the same boring repetitive, paranoid, uninformed "film mantra lectures"