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    Brown Honeyeater in my front yard

    Spotted this little guy feasting on the nectar from this grevillia blossom.

    Brown Honeyeater in my front yard

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    Re: Brown Honeyeater in my front yard

    Nicely composed, great color capture.

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    Re: Brown Honeyeater in my front yard

    I agree with John, Graham,

    You may consider it not worth the effort, but if mine, I would clone out the thickest bits of twig intruding at right hand side of frame. If you hold a thumb over them and I think you'll see that without them is a slightly better composition.

    I might also take 5% height off the top edge by cropping, e.g. make it about 970 px tall instead of 1023 px.

    But I am being really picky mentioning these things, purely in an effort to say something constructive.

    Well done for being prepared/quick enough to catch him/her.

    Cheers, Dave

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    Re: Brown Honeyeater in my front yard

    Nice shot. That's my favorite position for most birds. The back/top feathers are typically much more interesting than the breast. I got a shot of one of those guys over there fall of '13. Well, our fall, your spring. OK November...

    As others have suggested a bit of cropping and cleanup would be even better.

    Oops, just went and looked and what i shot were wattle birds, both red and little. They weren't very tasty.
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    Re: Brown Honeyeater in my front yard

    Wonderful shot! Looks like an Audubon painting with so much nice stuff in the foreground and such a beautiful background.

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    Re: Brown Honeyeater in my front yard

    You startled the birdie, Graham...I like where he is, very colourful environment.

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    Re: Brown Honeyeater in my front yard

    Beautiful!

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    Re: Brown Honeyeater in my front yard

    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Humphries View Post
    ........You may consider it not worth the effort, but if mine, I would clone out the thickest bits of twig intruding at right hand side of frame........

    Cheers, Dave
    Thanks for the comments Dave and yep you're right, I should have cloned that out. Don't know how I missed that.

    Also thanks John, Dan, Nick, Izzie and Barbara.
    Ps Dan over here it's autumn, leaves don't all fall off trees where I live when winter approaches

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