I am so disappointed with my kingfisher photos. If I'd had a faster shutter, a higher iso, maybe the effect of the vibrations of the boat would have been diminshed. If I'd had longer lens the cropped image it would be less pixelated and if we'd got closer I'd have zoomed less.
BUT enough of the excuses!! I did see, and get blurry photos of, three perched kingfishers and on all but one day had many lighting blue flypasts of these beautiful, elusive, kings (and queens) of the riverbank
Oh dear oh dear oh me. If I had taken this you would be singing high praises. So Mrs….. count up how many kingfisher that you spotted, sit back and reflect on the circumstances that this was taken under and give yourself a massive pat on the back.
Well, it may not be crystal clear, but I think that it has great details in focus and given the shooting situation, you did very well. Congratulations on catching this.
I think you should stop beating yourself up, birds are extremely hard to photograph even under ideal conditions. I took hundreds of bird photos when I was in South Africa with my phone, point and shoot and camera with a long lens and am I happy with any of them, no. I actually think you did a pretty good job with this one, we can see the colours and detail pretty well.
Ditto everything they all said about your exciting kingfisher encounter shot. If the inset represents your zoomed shot, I am amazed that you got such a good picture of a bird that far away.
A very nice capture and under the circumstances you have done very well, wish I had got one like it! Used to go canal boating quite a bit, what canal are you on?
@koalagardens about 4-5" tall
@monikozi turquoise and orange, should clash but don't
@joansmor thank you
@randystreat I think I wanted like you see in the magazines and www, just bird and really sharp!
@dutchothotmailcom very kind
@wakelys ok I'm considering myself told off!!
@ludwigsdiana wonderful to have seen them
@grammyn thank you!