The animals seem to be posing for me lately. Since I posted Portrait of a Butterfly, I figured why not post a Portrait of Rainbow Lorikeet? Much easier to capture than a butterfly, but equally as colorful.
Wonderful color, detail, and an unusual bokeh. Quite lovely, but sort of in between in terms of size. So I checked out the photo details and discovered, to my surprise that you were shooting with a Nikon D85. Surprised because when we last met up in person, I thought I remembered you being a Canon guy who was transitioning over to the mirrorless Sony. How do you like the D850. It happens that I recently got one for myself and am loving it of course. Except for that I wouldn't mind it having a pop-up flash for convenience sake. But I love most everything else about it. Was the 135 lens you used a prime or a zoom? i'm guessing a prime.. In any case, very nice.
Fantastically gorgeous with all that bouncing bokeh! I'm not sure if I even looked (carefully) thorough all of mine yet! Might just draw upon one to post for today, tomorrow...
Beautiful shot, they are such cheeky birds. We have had a gang of them in our garden this evening eating the seed we put out for them. The little corellas were here too, but the lorikeets put up a fight to get to the seed first even though the corellas are three times their size.
