Speckled Pigeon

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• saeedabbasi (4512)
• [2007-01-23 13:05]

Hi Annick ,
excellent focus and great details.
great sharpness and beautiful colors.
very well exposed.
thanks and regards
Saeed

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• InI23 (158)
• [2007-01-23 13:19]

Wild looking bird. Great details. Those L-series lenses are incredible when it comes to crisp sharpness. Wow. Nice job.
Cheers

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• jaycee (21912)
• [2007-01-23 13:23]

Hi Annick,

Beautiful portrait of a pigeon like none we have here. I love the colors and that eye!

Jane

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• gallezeric (1673)
• [2007-01-23 13:30]

bonjour annick

une netteté éblouisante un rendu du plumage parfait j'adore tes photos comme toi j'aime les gros plans une profondeur de champs parfaite ce qui met bien en évidence le sujet

eric

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• XOTAELE (8)
• [2007-01-23 13:51]

Magnífico retrato. Los detalles son fabulosos, los colores, la luz que ilumina ese ojo es fantástica.
Enhorabuena por tan bella foto.
Saludos, JL.

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• SelenE (13822)
• [2007-01-23 14:38]

Hello Annick,
The eyes say it all.. Very good colors, contrast,sharpness and framing. Beautiful portrait. TFS
Selen

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• marcin (1826)
• [2007-01-23 15:24]

hello Annick
beautiful portrait, great details,

Marcin

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• GLEM (6115)
• [2007-01-23 16:04]

hi annick
fantastique prise, l'effet piquant est très réussi, associé avec un contraste de couleurs fort.
Pour être puriste, il manque de la netteté sur le bec et côté gauche de la tête.
superbe.
tfs

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• hester (11638)
• [2007-01-23 16:16]

As ever super sharp details, great POV and lovely colours. Love that eye. Great shot again

TFS

Karan

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• SkyF (8127)
• [2007-01-23 16:17]

Hello Annick,
a wonderfil portrait of this pigeon, I like the frame filling composition. The details in the eye is amazing. Beautiful close up with excellent sharpness and great colors.
TFS..Sky

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• stevkds (1789)
• [2007-01-23 17:02]

Hi Annick.
Amazing photo.Technically perfect picture.I really like composition and quality here. TFS. Stefan

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• Juyona (15565)
• [2007-01-23 18:11]

Hola Annick, como siempre espectacular, precioso retrato y magnífica presentación, felicidades... saludos

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• Merlin (1094)
• [2007-01-23 18:25]
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Hi again, Annick:
If you haven't found it yet, it's the Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea, also known as the Guinea Pigeon, Hackled Pigeon or Red-eyed Pigeon. You're making ID a real challenge with the head-only shots, but this species is quite distinctive ;) Another trademark portrait!
Best wishes, Nigel.

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• coasties (27714)
• [2007-01-23 18:33]

Hi Annick

Wow, great plumage details. Love the head shot. These are my favourite. Nice work. TFS.

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• Adanac (17609)
• [2007-01-23 20:42]

Hello Annick,
Great feather detail, exceptional color and beautiful closeup composition.
Rick

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• Evelynn (14396)
• [2007-01-23 21:50]

I guess there is a reason that that lens has such a good reputation...it's earned it. Do you find it a little too heavy to carry for a hike etc? I probably have to stick with my slower lenses.


Nice work and TFS

Evelynn : )

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• elefantino (14381)
• [2007-01-24 1:58]

Nice shot of this Rock Pigeon (columba guinea) also called speckled pigeon.
Great eye details and colord.
Nice texture of the plumage.
Well done,
Andrea

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• star74 (2474)
• [2007-01-24 2:14]

Hi Annick,
Beautiful capture.
Very clear details and sharpness.
I like the colors a lot.
Well done

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• claudine (0)
• [2007-01-24 5:08]

Hey Annick,
This is another portrait that shows the Vanderschelend’s own style again :) Couldn’t your parents found an easier name to write than : Vanderscheleden!!! We never know where to place the "s,ch,etc." :)

Details, composition, colors are amazing. Well done again with a very strange looking pigeon ;)
Claudine

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• dew77 (13209)
• [2007-01-24 5:43]

Hello Annick,
Lovely portrait.I liked eye contact,framing,BG and visual impact a lot.
TFS..:-)

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• Hamurkaroglu (2887)
• [2007-01-24 6:26]

Hello Annick,
Very nice and colorful pigion. Also good photo. TFS.
Mehmet

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• jcoowanitwong (12117)
• [2007-01-24 7:37]

Hi Annick,
This is a new pigeon to me. Very well captured. Magnificent sharpness and exposure. Great color contrast and fine details clearly seen. Regards,
JC

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• Alex99 (18533)
• [2007-01-24 9:38]

Hi Annick.
I like your brilliant portrait work so much. You have selected model for shooting excellently. It is very nice and unusual. Your cropping is very good. Colours, sharpness and details are simply perfect as well as the colour tone and blurriness of the BG. My congratulations and TFS.
Alexei.

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• marhowie (302)
• [2007-01-24 11:19]
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Is this bird on a wire Annick?
Because he looks wired to me :)
Nice work.

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• Biswarup (2779)
• [2007-01-24 11:21]

Hi Annick,
Great details,great sharpness and beautiful colors.

Biswarup

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• Necipp (100)
• [2007-01-24 12:27]
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Wow the detail is almost overwelming gosh not bad for a 350D just to think I was thinking of upgrading my 350D birding camera excellent light and good bkground. well done rgds Necip

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• badar (785)
• [2007-01-24 23:16]

Hi Annick,
Another beautiful portrait, technically very good though the beak looks a little soft, mabe the gloss on the beak.The eye with the red patch around it is all absorbing.
TFS
Badruddin Ali

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• loot (10031)
• [2007-01-24 23:21]
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Hi Annick

Wow, this portrait of the speckled pigeon is simply amazing. It is so close-up and ‘in-your-face’ that it could almost qualify for macro work.

The wet bird looks absolutely stunning on this shot. Especially since the fine neck feathers matted together which created a very interesting effect. The composition is good and the colours are splendid. The details are smashing and that remarkable eye is so life-like. Obviously the perfect BG does its fair share to even enhance the bird further and the spot-on exposure rounded of to do the rest.

Great work and TFS.
Regards
Loot

PS. Sorry I took so long to update my critique, but I don’t know what’s going on here in South African. For the second time this week more than ½ of the country had a total black-out that lasted almost 7 hours. After the power was restored the Internet still remained unavailable and I don’t know what time last night it came back on-line, but at least this morning everything seems to be fine again.