Sitelle à poitrine rousse / Red-breasted Nuthatch

thanks for your constructive comments.

Excelente imagen de gran belleza, perfecta luz y color, bella composicion, magnifico encuadre, saludos cordiales Martin.

soooooo beautiful. lovely color & composition with amazing DOF control. regards!

Lovely shot with great details and beatiful colors. Very well done!

Beautiful and unusual shot. Bravo

I have a hard time understanding the high ratings on this one--seems like a fairly average bird shot and the light from the flash isn't all that appealing. I recognize there is some difficulty in getting this close to the bird, but that in itself does not make a great photograph.

brilliant photograph

I Agree with you Robert. I was suprise myself. It seems that on PN what you have to do is put high details shots (tightly croped) and sacrificed on the composition a litle bit. I actualy put way more time with the other red-breasted in my recent upload folder. Artisticly I find the other one way better, light was controled on perpace. But on the other one, like usual, I had a 3/3 rating very early. This one amazingly didnt get a 3/3 rating within the first hour. Again I think that the anonymous rating just put out good photos (not talking "only" for my self here). It is more arbitrary now than it use to be. Well... to bad for PN, and I guess I'm lucky for once, and the photo is not that bad, ;)

Thanks for your comments everyone.

I like it,Martin,details,colours and I appreciate the difficulty of this shot,all my best to you,Radu.

Very nice shot. Great details, composition and color. Best regards.

Strange. Not one of your better shots Martin yet it rates more highly than many of your really good ones. The light is quite unflattering and my eyes are drawn more to the bottom than the head. Not bad but not that good in the context of your portfolio.

Martin, I didn't say the photo was "bad." It's just that you have much better avian photos: many of which have received much worse ratings. Cheers.

I know, we have the same surprise, and we are saying the same thing!!!

One of those life mysteries ;)