Bird on a branch by maggiemae

Bird on a branch

These silvereyes were fluttering around the honey pot and I put my camera on to sports mode. The shots were all very grainy as a high ISO was used. I spent almost a whole day on trying to find an app that removed noise. Never succeeded - they were all ones who had to have photoshop or aperture or over $100!

So this one got a bit of dark treatment.

Three good things:
1. Decided I like the word 'Sod" - you know, 'sod off' and a sodding shame etc. Better than the ones more common.
2. Found a whole smoked chicken in the freezer - its about time its going to be lunch.
3 My hat was much admired.
Awesome shot
July 15th, 2014  
One of my favourite words is sod off....a bit naughty but not offensive!
Love the way the little birds eye is rimmed with white...he seems to be just sitting in that tree watching you.
Smoked chicken is good.......I think I might delve in mine tomorrow!
July 15th, 2014  
very artistic maggie
July 15th, 2014  
I like the blur and yellow. Great shot!
July 15th, 2014  
love it and the Name fits the Bird for sure!!!
July 16th, 2014  
I like this, the lighting, it could be an animation
July 16th, 2014  
it has a surreal look about it.
July 16th, 2014  
Bev
Nice shot. It's so hard capturing birds in motion. I still have not mastered that technique! Even when I had a camera with a sports setting it didn't make a lick of difference! I have no clue how to catch them in flight - the ones I did get were purely accidental. This looks like a cute little bird. I've never seen one before! And I actually love the word "sod" too! I use it A LOT! I picked it up from the other half. He's a bad influence on me!
July 16th, 2014  
Interesting sort of abstraction is the result of your tryings. The word 'sod' - is it of the word 'sodomite'?
July 16th, 2014  
@anden Wikipaedia says, Anatoly: Sod in British English is a somewhat offensive, pejorative term for a person, derived from sodomite[1] but rarely nowadays used with this meaning. So you were right!
July 16th, 2014  
It is a very appealing picture
July 16th, 2014  
@maggiemae Maggie, thanks a lot for your explanation.
July 16th, 2014  
Looks like the bird is giving you the evil silvereye - sod it. :-)
July 16th, 2014  
@snaphappi Thanks Maggie - well spoken!
July 16th, 2014  
Great capture
July 16th, 2014  
That looks like one fat bird... or one very puffed up bird.
July 16th, 2014  
Neat artsy look, could be on a book cover.
July 16th, 2014  
Good for you for trying something new today and sod - I like this word too.
July 16th, 2014  
Actually I love the artsy feel to this. Great colors and bokeh. I will fav this one. The only way I know the word sod is that it's a synonym for lawn grass. Never heard it used any other way.....thanks for the cue. I always love new expressions!
July 16th, 2014  
Makes it look like a painting...nice shot Maggie!
July 16th, 2014  
Very nice shot
July 16th, 2014  
This is almost surreal in quality - love it!
July 16th, 2014  
Nice processing, the noise is not overly visible!
July 16th, 2014  
I rather like this shot! :)
July 16th, 2014  
Found a bird and found a chicken too! Wow! A great day. whatever you did to this photo made it look great to me!
July 16th, 2014  
@espyetta It might have been easier to stick that smoked chicken on that branch and take a bird photo!
July 16th, 2014  
Love the artistic blur and the bright eye.
July 17th, 2014  
Lovely image.
July 17th, 2014  
Sweet little fella
July 17th, 2014  
So cute. Would be great for a painting.
July 21st, 2014  
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