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The Infamous Kea


The Infamous Kea
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Copyright: Christian Davies (vizion) Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 34 W: 8 N: 37] (199)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-01-14
Categories: Birds
Exposure: f/4, 1/200 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): My First Post of Trek Nature [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-03-18 12:41
Viewed: 1086
Points: 22
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The New Zealand Mountain Parrot, Kea is a funny, rather big bird, to watch. When they peeling off rubber from other peoples car (that's the funny part :) or go after your shoelaces.
I was quite intimidated by the size of the Kea and with their powerful and sharp beaks.

They live in the mountains of New Zealand's South Island and is the only alpine parrot in the world.
The Kea received full protection in 1986.

This one was "shot" before entering the mountain tunnel to Milford Sound.
lovenature, nglen, Debz, shaharbv, anel, gannu, mlines has marked this note useful
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Hi Christian
Welcome to TrekNature
A interesting capture of this Kea preening his feathers. He has a interesting and colours feather pattern. Nice details, colours and note.
TFS Janice

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  • nglen Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2904 W: 34 N: 8600] (32056)
  • [2007-03-18 13:30]
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Hello Christian, welcome to trek nature. a good photo to start with. good colours. and a lot of details. well done..
Nick

Very good start. I loke the pose and action you cought of this beautiful bird. I think F4 may have been a bit large of an Fstop. Looks as if your focus is on the Parrots back and the eye is a tad out of focus. I think that F5.6 would have been a better F-stop to get a tad more DOF. Very good shot though.

Hi Christian,
Welcome to TrekNature!
Good capture. The focus does not seem to be on the head, but on the body. It is very important to focus on the head (specifically the eye) and recompose the picture. Also, it would have been nice if it was a full body shot and the bottom wouldn't have been cropped.

Regards,
Shahar.

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  • anel Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1715 W: 0 N: 3896] (15640)
  • [2007-03-19 3:40]
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Hello Christian,
Wonderful shot you present here. The display of the parrot's feather is wonderful, the colours outstandingly beautiful. Excellent pose also.
Bravo.
Best regards
Anne

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  • joey Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2001 W: 226 N: 6845] (24727)
  • [2007-03-19 13:32]
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A decent shot for your first post!
Shame the head is slightly out of
focus but a good capture with brilliant
composition and POV.
Well done,
Joey

Hi Christian,

This is a realy rare shot I think. It`s the first picture of this species that I`ve seen on tn.
Splendid details, a good POV and DOF.
Very good ligthing too.

TFS
Alex

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  • Debz Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 516 W: 0 N: 846] (3307)
  • [2007-03-25 5:04]

Another fine shot of the naughty Kea. Until seeing yur photos I didn't realise that they had such an interesting colour range on their feathers. Lovely exposure and sharpness in every detail. I hope you can post more.
tfs
debz

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  • gannu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1169 W: 4 N: 3262] (14691)
  • [2007-04-02 1:31]

Christian,
Interesting picture and with good background color.Tks for sharing

bonjour christian
merci pour votre commentaire.
j'ai choisit cette photo car je la trouve tres belle avec les plumes ebourrifées et tres coloré;
une belle action.
laurent

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  • mlines Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 541 W: 24 N: 596] (2870)
  • [2007-04-29 17:28]

Hi Christian. You did well to get such a clear view of this kea. They certainly have a reputation as you describe. Excellent clarity. Murray.

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