Beak with Boke

[Greg B]

http://www.pixspot.com/displayimage.php ... 0008&pos=0

Shot under very difficult circumstances, the bird was on the nest buried in thick ivy, nervously protecting her chicks, and I wanted to minimise the anxiety. So I took what I could.

[xerubus]

Is that a common indian myna?

although the shot is great.. especially under the circumstances... i have to be blatantly honest and say it doesn't do much for me...

/me scurries back into his corner...

[Greg B]

Come out of the corner xerebus, it isn't much of a shot, I like the colours, but I haven't managed to get the bird's eye, etc etc.

Yep, I think it is the common myna

[Onyx]

peek-a-boo! I see no eyes, which way is up?

[Matt. K]

This is the first I have seen of your work. You have a nice touch. There is a sensitivity to your photography that gives it a strange but beautiful quality. Show me more.

[Nicole]

Hi Greg, a shame about all that ivy. Birds are not an easy subject to take pics of. Cute photo of your dog though.

[bago100]

Greg
I like it
It shows a bird trying to hide and yet looking for mum and dad. The ivy at the front, I think, adds to the vulnerability of the bird.
Lighting would have been tricky in the bushes
Cheers
Graham

[Matt. K]

By the way Greg...You didn't like your breakfast?

[kipper]

Love the Bolty Bridge and the one of the river. Where was the river shot?

[Greg B]

Thanks for the comments!

Nicole - not actually my dog, but he is a fantastic little fella.

Matt, thanks.

Kipper, the river shot was taken late 70's somewhere around Deniliquin, I can't remember exactly. A group of people on a kind of share/commune farm had - for several years - the annual Mudfest over easter. Probably 60-80 people camping along the river, people frollicking naked in the mud, a huge bonfire every night, they were high times. I got a series of great shots of the river just after dawn, mist on the river, shot on Kodachrome 64

[gstark]

Kipper, the river shot was taken late 70's somewhere around Deniliquin, I can't remember exactly. A group of people on a kind of share/commune farm had - for several years - the annual Mudfest over easter. Probably 60-80 people camping along the river, people frollicking naked in the mud, a huge bonfire every night, they were high times. I got a series of great shots of the river just after dawn, mist on the river, shot on Kodachrome 64

Anything to do with Pipi Storm Circus perhaps?

[Matt. K]

Gary...you...naked at the mud-fest? Hmmm too late for the nature competition.

[Raydar]

Gary...you...naked at the mud-fest? Hmmm too late for the nature competition.

This I think is a good thing!!!!!

Cheers
Ray

[gstark]

Gary...you...naked at the mud-fest? Hmmm too late for the nature competition.

Not I, but some friends were heavily involved in Pipi Storm.

Including one very well known personality (radio, comedy) of whom I have a rather, er, embarrasing-ish image which was used for their reunion ealier this year.

And no, I'm sworn to secrecy.