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After bath - Stonechat


After bath - Stonechat
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Copyright: Jose Conceicao (jconceicao) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 381 W: 19 N: 667] (2489)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-07-15
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon 400 D, Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM, Hama UV 77mm
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/1600 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-07-16 11:14
Viewed: 407
Points: 44
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Stonechat

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The African Stonechat (Saxicola torquatusis) a member of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. In the past it was usually included in the "Common Stonechat" (Saxicola torquatus sensu lato), but all available evidence strongly supports full species status for the European and the Siberian Stonechats, as well as the Fuerteventura Chat and Réunion Stonechat.
It has a scattered distribution across much of southern Africa, and more locally north to Senegal and Ethiopia, with outlying populations in the mountains of southwest Arabia and on Madagascar and Grand Comoro Island. It is non-migratory, moving only locally if at all; as a result, it has developed much regional variation, being divided into 17 subspecies, one of which is very distinctive and may deserve recognition as a separate species.
The males have a black head, a white half-collar, a black back, a white rump, and a black tail; the wings are black with a large white patch on the top side of the inner wing. The upper breast is mostly (but see subspecies, below) dark orange-red, with a sharp or gradual transition to white or pale orange on the lower breast and belly. Females have brown rather than black above and on the head with an indistinct paler eyebrow line, chestnut-buff rather than orange below, and less white on the wings. Both sexes' plumage is somewhat duller and streakier outside the breeding season
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  • horias Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 387 W: 59 N: 854] (3950)
  • [2009-07-16 11:19]

Hi Hose,
What a upset is whit with wet feathers ...but is very lovely capture. Congratulation!
Horia

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  • MMM Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 921 W: 0 N: 1985] (8905)
  • [2009-07-16 11:26]

Hi Jose
Beautiful composition.Good POV and sharp image,nice OOF BG.The plumage detail are excellent.I like that pose on the diagonal branch.
TFS Michel

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  • nglen Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2912 W: 34 N: 8640] (32202)
  • [2009-07-16 11:27]

Hi Jose. What a great close up of the wet looking Stonechat. You have taken it with fine detail and bright colours. I like the pose on the lichen covered branch. well done TFs.
Nick..

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  • joska Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 411 W: 0 N: 1022] (5516)
  • [2009-07-16 11:31]

Very interesting photo!

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  • thor68 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 792 W: 138 N: 1312] (5642)
  • [2009-07-16 11:52]

geez, poor bird has to dry, he looks awful.*g* excellent and funny capture of the wet stonechat,
love the details on the scraggly plumage. wonderful job & best wishes, thor.

A cute shot with good details..

Olá José,

Esta foto é linda, incrível que você pode fotografar o pássaro, apenas tomar o seu banho!

Detalhes são superiores e fez as cores são muito naturais. ... Como sempre uma maravilhosa DOF!

Lindo trabalho, estou muito satisfeito por ver os resultados que obtém através da exploração da telefocus!

saudações ...

obrigado por compartilhar!

Jesús

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  • siggi Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1378 W: 56 N: 4747] (16330)
  • [2009-07-16 12:25]

Hello Jose,
Lovely plumage colours. I like the pose with the slight head turn. Good light and BG. Nice work. Thanks.Best regards Siggi

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  • cloud Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 297 W: 71 N: 758] (4689)
  • [2009-07-16 13:05]

Hello Jose,
Although most of the bird can hide before rain but this maybe took bath because hot weather. Very joyful photo and composed very well.
Regards, Pawel

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  • PeterZ Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2395 W: 94 N: 5542] (17634)
  • [2009-07-16 13:36]

Hello Jose,
The photo is beautiful, not the bird. You can see that without the featers there's almost nothing left of the bird.
Excellent sharpness, natural colours, POV and composition. Beautiful OOF BG.
Regards,
Peter

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  • jaycee Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2493 W: 11 N: 6885] (21912)
  • [2009-07-16 16:22]

Hi Jose,

This very wet Stonechat is wonderful. The feathers and eye are magnificent. I love the background and the pose on the diagonal branch. Unusual and excellent shot.

Jane

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  • tcr Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 77 W: 0 N: 233] (920)
  • [2009-07-16 17:01]

Olá José.
Incomum e bem capturada imagem.
Ótima nitidez, cores e fundo desfocado.
Belo trabalho.
TFS.

hello Jose
very beautiful moment and little funny, composition details colours all exceptional,splendid capture
TFS
Nasos

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  • uleko Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2997 W: 162 N: 968] (2839)
  • [2009-07-17 6:32]

Hello Jose,
Oh dear, this Stonechat looks so skinny after its bath!! Very nice capture though with good focus on the eye and I like the colours. A lovely background too and well composed.
TFS and regards, Ulla

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  • zetu Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 649 W: 15 N: 1607] (6263)
  • [2009-07-17 6:33]

Hello Jose
Nice capture with very sharp details, clear BG and natural colors
regards
Razvan

hello Jose,
a fantastic and interesting picture of the African Stonechat, very good sharpness and splendid pose of the bird against a very good OOF BG, POV and composition are excellent.
TFS
best regards
Maurizio

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  • anel Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1725 W: 0 N: 3924] (15760)
  • [2009-07-17 6:44]

Hello Jose,
What a funny picture! Very pleasant decentred composition and beautiful natural colors. Fine blurred background. Très beau!
Thanks and kind regards
Anne

Ciao Jose, beautiful diagonal composition with lovely bird in nice pose, good natural colors, fine details and excellent sharpness, very well done, have a good week end, ciao Silvio

Precioso trabajo Jose, con una buena realización ya que a pesar de sus difíciles texturas llenaste todos los huecos de su mojado plumaje de luz. En cuadre " de libro" de gran elegancia. El estado en que captaste al ave impacta de entrada.
Saludos: Josep Ignasi.

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  • briGG Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 171 W: 2 N: 272] (1383)
  • [2009-07-17 13:44]

Hi Jose!
I like this cute shot!

Eu ri ao mesmo tempo que vê esse pássaro!
Ele parece tão infeliz!

Excellent shot!

TFS

brigitte

Hello Jose
very well presentation of this lovely African Stonechat, great composition and wonderful details on his wet plumage, superb colors of the bird and BG
Have a great WE
Jacqueline

Grt capture with sharp details. thanks

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