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Olive-backed Sunbird
Olive-backed Sunbird
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Wildlife II (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Canon EF 300 f/4.0L
Location: Banting, Selangor, Malaysia
Date: Jan 22, 2006
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/2000
Galleries: Nature, Action
Date Uploaded: Jan 23, 2006

stalked for 3 days straight, this is my best image.

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Statistics
Place: 4 out of 261
Avg (all users): 7.3324
Avg (commenters): 8.3636
Avg (participants): 7.0877
Avg (non-participants): 7.4541
Views since voting: 3606
Views during voting: 510
Votes: 343
Comments: 48
Favorites: 6 (view)


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02/06/2006 01:18:42 AM
What a lovely and memorable capture to delight all viewers. Congratulations on your top 5 finish.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/31/2006 10:49:31 PM
Wow, that's great that you have birds raising young where you live...nothing but snow up this way till spring. This is such a beautiful shot...nice mid-air capture and I love the baby's open beak. I have never seen this sunbird before either. Fantastic image!
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01/31/2006 10:41:00 PM
Very nice. Composition is great.
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01/31/2006 09:20:52 PM
Great, I love this!
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01/31/2006 06:27:16 PM
Superb action shot. One of the few dynamic shots in this challenge. Great work and good luck.
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01/31/2006 05:30:21 PM
8 - Oh, very good capture/opportunity. The 'baby' is nice and sharp. Difficult to get 'it all' perfect in this. Criticism; mainly the composition and framing, but obviously depends what you had to work with. The colors are good, the texture in the nest that is discernible is good. To be able to get true 'stop motion' on that father(?) (and the detail on the bug(?) in it's mouth is good), is, I guess, lens/camera dependent. Just a little more context/space for this shot (again, if you had it) may have made this even better in my opinion. 640 height too, likely. Save for a different angle/perspective (retrospective obviously), not much to be done about the green behind 'father', which while makes this a more colorful shot overall, perhaps detracts slightly from the 'father' and the impact of this capture. Up to 8 from 7, mainly for 'difficulty'.
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01/31/2006 05:23:07 PM
great catch!!!
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01/31/2006 03:45:06 PM
wow you did a great job with catching it as it happened
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01/31/2006 04:21:39 AM
Great action shot - two birds, good focus, great composition, nice motion blur. Well done all round!
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01/30/2006 05:12:47 PM
Great action shot that tells a story. Good focus, sharpness, composition, colors, just wonderful.
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01/30/2006 03:55:25 PM
Very nice shot. This must have taken patience.
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01/30/2006 01:27:32 PM
lovely texture
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01/30/2006 11:22:29 AM
Awesome capture!! Impeccable timing and perfect stopping of the action.
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01/30/2006 09:14:38 AM
Love the action in this shot.

Good luck in this challenge!
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01/30/2006 07:53:29 AM
Amazing action shot!! I love this!!
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01/30/2006 02:05:42 AM
Great color and action! Good timing!
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01/29/2006 11:02:44 PM
Very cool capture. Hmmm, China, Singapore, Philippines, Australia, wonder who shot this? Nice job.
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01/29/2006 06:43:26 PM
Great action capture.
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01/29/2006 05:58:19 PM
Wonderful color. Good focus with attention on the young bird in the nest, good action, good soft background. A 10 from me.
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01/29/2006 04:48:45 PM
beautiful shot
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01/29/2006 11:46:20 AM
cute picture, nice detail
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01/28/2006 08:46:40 PM
Nice timing great shot. captures real nature
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01/28/2006 07:20:11 PM
Love it! Great capture!...9
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01/28/2006 07:08:27 PM
Holy cow, what a catch!
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01/28/2006 03:50:55 PM
This picture is good enough to ribbon. The timing of the capture is outstanding.
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01/28/2006 11:40:24 AM
Nice!
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01/28/2006 09:01:13 AM
Very nice action/real life capture!
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01/28/2006 08:06:31 AM
So cute and what a great capture, well done.....
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01/28/2006 12:53:13 AM
exquisite - an amazing capture of a maternal moment in the wild.
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01/27/2006 06:51:59 PM
Wow, talk about right place, right time. Very nice.
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01/27/2006 03:01:32 PM
nice capture, the only thing I could wish for was for you to have a faster shutter to catch the wings even more in focus, otherwise love it
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01/27/2006 08:49:36 AM
I don't think I've ever seen this breed of bird before, and you captured such a stunning shot of them! This is truly a remarkable image. Love the motion blur and the feather fan of the wings. The lighting is wonderful and the focus/DOF is dead on. The crop may be a tad tight, but it allows the viewer a much closer look. Really top-notch work. Bumping up... 10
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01/26/2006 11:20:30 PM
Oh, really, REALLY nice capture!
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01/26/2006 07:56:29 PM
if only the wings could have been stoped
i would like it more. nice shot
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01/26/2006 10:48:53 AM
this one has everything 9
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01/26/2006 09:39:10 AM
Gret timing. A keeper for sure.
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01/26/2006 04:17:37 AM
Beautiful picture
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01/25/2006 11:14:30 PM
Great action shot! Wonderful colors.
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01/25/2006 07:54:46 PM
Incredible timing, what a fantastic shot!!!! 10
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01/25/2006 06:33:55 PM
wow!
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01/25/2006 03:17:46 PM
Love the motion blur! One of the 4 best photos in this challenge. Prediction: Red Ribbon..
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01/25/2006 02:05:08 PM
Excellent capture.
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01/25/2006 11:22:29 AM
nicely done!!
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01/25/2006 10:57:42 AM
Wing blur is really cool...cool capture.
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01/25/2006 08:30:59 AM
Good shot!
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01/25/2006 07:28:05 AM
What a capture! You must be thrilled! A really wonderful image showing natural bird behaviour!
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01/25/2006 07:18:41 AM
excellent capture. Nice to see a species that you don't see often.
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01/25/2006 05:22:18 AM
lovely shot...you must have waited a long time to get this
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