immature butcher bird

I took this chance to delve back for another of my favourite photos I took of this young 'un. The adults are black and white, but the immatures are shades of brown. The bokeh has actually come up quite nicely I thought and I spent a fair bit of time working through the many options for mixing to get the conversion to really keep the fore and background separation working. Hope you enjoy it too.

[aikiuser (jenn)]

Terrific shot! I had to look up Butcher Bird as I'd not heard of (or remembered) them. Very cool!

[Pigeons Farm]

This is a great shot :)

[Hope D Jennings]

Just lovely!

[Babs]

He is gorgeous, I love butcher birds, we have a family who visit daily. Works so well in black and white

[Beryl Lloyd]

Lovely shot -look at that beak !

[Fr1da]

Gorgeous in monochrome !

[Kate]

Nice editing

[Pat]

A lovely capture, he stands out beautifully.

[Mave]

Lovely shot

[Helge Erik Storheim]

Nice capture

[Lou Ann]

Lovely in b&w. Lovely bokeh too.

[Mags]

Marvelous black and white!

[KV]

Beautiful.

[Steve Chappell]

Excellent portrait of this bird, great shot

[Issi Bannerman]

Lovely!

[Nina Ganci]

Terrific capture and details
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[gloria jones]

Super capture

[Esther Rosenberg]

beautiful capture

[LManning (Laura)]

It’s lovely, and great job on the processing.

[Jacqueline]

Beautiful capture!

[haskar]

Great focus and processing.

[Sylvia]

Great capture and framing

[Poppo Livy]

For some reason, our two babies this year are a very dark brown.

[Rick]

Cool capture.

[Monique]

Beautiful capture

[Yolanda]

Beautiful

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Great shot

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Nice shot!