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Copyright: Japie Venter (japie) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1814 W: 100 N: 1904] (5187)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-10-22
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon EOS 300D, Sigma 170-500mm APO, Skylight
Exposure: f/11, 1/200 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes (Fill) Flash: Yes
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Birds of Southern Africa, Photographer's favourite, 50 points or more - 50 puntos o más [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2004-10-24 15:25
Viewed: 2155
Favorites: 1 [view]
Points: 51
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
I took this Cape White Eye in the Somerset West nature reserve. It was early morning and their was a hustle and bustle as the birds were feeding in the fresh early morning air. I enlarged the birds head on the left hand image to show its tongue ready to snap up a small insect on the leaf.

More about the Cape White Eye

A small very active yellowish bird with a white ring around the eye. Size 12cm - smaller than a sparrow. Afrikaans: Kaapse Glasogie

The bill of the White-eye is straight, short and slender. The bill is blackish with a blue-grey base to the lower mandible. The legs and feet are bluish-grey. The eye is brown and there is a solid, fairly prominent, white ring around the eye. The upperparts are greyish-green. The throat and undertail are yellow. The rest of the underparts vary in colour depending on region, from greenish yellow with green wash on the breast, to whitish with rufous-pink flanks.

A common and familiar bird which is present in a variety of habitats including gardens, parks, forest, woodland, riverine bush and exotic plantations.

It is usually seen in pairs or in small quick moving parties, which move through the foliage, calling all the time. They search trees and shrubs thoroughly, often from ground level to the canopy, searching for small insects.

The diet consists of small insects, spiders, nectar, fruit, and flower petals. They are quite regular visitors to bird tables, where they will take fruit, sugar or jam.

They are very vocal, and constantly keep in touch with soft trilled pee, pree or pirreee callnotes. The song consists of repeated long jerky prhases of sweet reedy notes, varying in pitch, volume and temp, usually starting off with teee teee or pirrup pirrup notes, then becoming a fast rambled jumble of notes, which may incorporate mimicked phrases of other birdcalls.

Cape White-eyes nest mainly from October to December. The nest is a small thin-walled cup of fine grass, stems, roots, hair and strands of lichen, bound together with spider webs and lined with plant down of feathers.

It is suspended by rim from thin horizontal fork of shrub, bush or tree.

The camera settings:

Focal Length: 500mm
F Stop: F/11
Shutter Speed: 1/200
ISO: 400
Tripod: Yes
Flash: Yes
Reflective Panel: No
Cable release: No
PDP, Callie, Luc, extramundi, red45, willie, miqra, AndyB, sandpiper2, marhowie, coasties, Robbrown, deud, Lesley, Demetrio, mogens-j, TAZ, gazo, RAP, Janice has marked this note useful
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  • Great 
  • Callie Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1132 W: 105 N: 2609] (7531)
  • [2004-10-24 15:34]

Japie
Nice "bugie"
Jy sal my moet wys hoe jy dit doen, the birdies are green, I am even more so. They are alwways in my garden, I could not yet nail them. Now you set a standard, en nou gann jy bars as jy swakker waag pos!

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  • Luc Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1873 W: 304 N: 4300] (14729)
  • [2004-10-24 16:11]

Beautiful and excellent work Japie. The "médaillon" in the center is the "cherry on the sunday". Inspiring work! TFS.

Very beautiful post, Japie. I like very much both compositions, the detail and also the collage. The colours are wonderful, but to be a little critic, I must say I feel that the detail in the middle is almost the same size as the original pic, I would have liked in a bigger scale although you cropped some of the head out. Besides that a very beautiful post.
Thanks for your contribution to TN.

  • Great 
  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2705 W: 74 N: 8864] (30243)
  • [2004-10-24 16:30]

High End. Congratulations!

very good work !
tous est bon sur cette photo, la presentation, les couleur , la pdc........
rien a dire si ce n'est bravos.

  • Great 
  • willie Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1023 W: 61 N: 648] (2083)
  • [2004-10-24 16:39]

Baie Netjies Japie. The colours are great. The complete picture is very nice and the insert an added bonus.
very good.

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  • miqra Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 140 W: 3 N: 23] (151)
  • [2004-10-24 16:43]

Now this deserves a double WOW! I love what you did, almost like watching the bird on video...You are indeed a Pro Japie, well done!

  • Great 
  • AndyB Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1391 W: 32 N: 1350] (3982)
  • [2004-10-24 17:33]

Excellent work and 10 out of 10 for presentation alone.
Lovely colours and detail with perfect DoF.
Great stuff,well done.

One word: Phenomenal! The compo is excepetional and the clarity way up there with the best. Thi is setting a standard. Your photo's keep on improving with each shot you post.

Arrggghh, sê die boef en sterf roggelend!"

Its a great shot, that Sigma lens captures a mean picture. The composition is really good and well presented. I think this deserves more than 2 points!

Japie, this simply wonderful! What neat stuff you can do with Photo Shop? Since I don't have it I'm assuming this is a feature of it? Anyway, I can't say enough to compliment you on this job. Just spectacular!!

Good work, lighting, colour and presentation are all really good.

  • Great 
  • PDP Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor [C: 2821 W: 344 N: 3779] (11769)
  • [2004-10-25 4:38]

This is just super! Fantastic set, original presentation too. I can't fault it Japie. Whatever pills you have been taking recently can you send some to me please?

Well deserved points tomorrow

Nice photos. I like the way you have presented this. Good colours. Congratulations!

Very nice set Jappie, with-out the white round the eye i would of said they where european Green Finches. but the habit of feeding seems completly different and the view you give us of this is perfect. Thank you for sharing.

This image is just a pleasure to look at. The colors and detail are outstanding and with the beatifully blurred background it really pops! Simply stunning work!

  • Great 
  • deud Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 440 W: 10 N: 504] (2372)
  • [2004-10-25 7:35]

Beautiful creatures. First time seeing this one.

Lovely shots here and great presentation, please how do you do that, what programme do you use.

Good looking bird. I like the shot on the R the most. Not so wild about the double presentation and the PIP.

Beautiful little bird Japie. Wonderful colours and great dof and I really love the idea of adding the picture in the middle of this composition - well done.

  • Great 
  • TAZ Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2241 W: 47 N: 3167] (10926)
  • [2004-10-26 10:40]

Bien vu cette présentation en trois éléments. Les clichés sont beaux et de bonne qualité !
Very well done !

  • Great 
  • gazo Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 74 W: 0 N: 13] (88)
  • [2004-10-29 21:24]

Very good shot and a splendid work. Very demonstrative. Many beautifull colors and the tongue... Good sharpness!
Many people came to see your work and it worth the shot.

They look fake, like stuffed birds, too perfect..... are they really real? a bird tongue, that is some feat to photo! Very good!

  • Great 
  • RAP Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2524 W: 345 N: 2373] (7405)
  • [2004-11-03 16:46]

Otra de las imágenes Japie que tenía pendiente de criticar... y realmente no quería omitir esta GRAN COMPOSICION.
Bellas imágenes de un ave encantadora, con gran agudeza y colorido como principales puntos fuertes.
Gran presentacion con una nota muy instructiva.

Another one images Japie that to be pending really to criticize... and did not want to omit this GREAT COMPOSITION.
Beautiful images of a charming bird, with great colorful and sharpness like main strongpoints.
Great presentation with one notices very instructive.

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  • livios Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2156 W: 322 N: 4258] (16906)
  • [2004-11-25 14:17]

Japie, your composition is a masterpiece. You did on Photoshop?

The sharpness is amazing, and the background works greatly too.

Congratulations.

Lívio

  • Great 
  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3315 W: 148 N: 6113] (18648)
  • [2004-12-07 4:21]

Great colours, the birds and the plants all tone in together so well. Excellent capture. TFS, Janice

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