Redshank

Posted by Richard Irwin (Belper, United Kingdom) on 1 December 2008 in Animal & Insect.

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Comments (16)

Rags from Plano, United States

Beautiful and very well composed. I really like the tint in the image.

1 Dec 2008 6:50am

GJC from Kyoto, Japan

Terrific. An elegant simplicity.

1 Dec 2008 10:24am

Cheryl from Texas, United States

I like the DOF.

1 Dec 2008 1:21pm

Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada

Check that out, wow, fantastic close-up, tell me Richard, did you play with the colours, or was this the actual tone? Either way, it's superb!

1 Dec 2008 1:21pm

@Lorraine: Totally natural...... and it was the most pleasantly coloured pool of cattle slurry sewage I have ever seen. However, its smell didn't match its colour.... especially after several hours in a hide.

Bookfool from Vicksburg, United States

I was going to ask about the colors, too. Did you tint this, or is it natural? I love the composition.

1 Dec 2008 1:36pm

@Bookfool: It is the natural colour. It was actually a slurry pond by a cattle farm.

Anthony Lambert from Bielefeld, Germany

Looks like he´s feeling a little lonely.Nice image.

1 Dec 2008 2:40pm

Alphons from Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands

Nice special composition. Well captured.

1 Dec 2008 3:52pm

Calusarus from St Sorlin en Valloire, France

I like this composition : nice mood.

1 Dec 2008 4:04pm

MaryB from Staffordshire, United Kingdom

What a beautiful photograph Richard, I would never have guessed it was in the setting you described.

1 Dec 2008 8:23pm

Earnest from Oklahoma, United States

The color is astonishing... how was it done?

1 Dec 2008 8:40pm

@Earnest: Thanks. It was shot at a slurry pond, which was full of blue-green algai, but the strong light created the colour. I shot this on Kodachrome 35mm slide film using a Nikon FM2 and a 400mm lens.