A bad day for a bug

[blevine15]

This House Wren has made a nest in my yard. It is always entering a bird house feed little ones.

[Jemmind]

nice! The bird seems to have an aura though.
Julie

[Art Rodriguez]

Nice photo and capture.

[Leorooster]

Great capture!

[Bald Eagle]

great shot of the bird. lost opportunity for a bug Macro. (lol) good work.

[robertwgross]

Nice aura.

---Bob Gross---

[photo_luver]

Dont you just love there call? there call is one of the most beautiful ive ever heard!

Great capture you didnt have much time to focus so it musta been difficult!

[LazyPhotographer]

Beautiful capture!

[einsteinsauntie]

Beautiful range of greens, even the bug coordinates, and the bird's head is a lovely, gentle contrast. Makes of a great composition.

[foxbat]

Nice auraLooks like the effect you get when you overdo the shadows/highlights adjustment in PS. Interesting effect here though.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Shadows highlights in PS.. or "fill light" in RSE I found out the hard way...

This is an awesome capture.. just beautifull!
All the elements are exceptionla.. the perfect pose,. the wonderfull perch.. it's angle across the image,. the range of colors in the mostly blurred out background...

All adds up to some top notch stuff!

Here's some ideas... this is an award winner and deserves another pass through post processing ;)

The "aura" as mentioned..
I think your color calibration is a little out.. or you have maybe over saturated a bit?

Mainly.. I would like to see a closer crop...
I'd make this a pritrait oriented image.. the background is nioce and hard to lop off.. but I think it would be stronger if you did.
Leave the bird slightly off center.. a little to the left... the diagonal perch maybe should run off the left hand side as opposed to the top...

Awesome pic!

[cfcRebel]

Nice timing! Thanks for sharing.

[tupe]

Just an opinion, for what it's worth, but what I'm seeing on my monitor I like as is. If it were my photo, I'd be saying, what can I do about that green reflection on the bird, but in this shot I think it works and adds to the photo.

I agree with CDS about the crop, especially if you have enough pixels in the original to make the bird larger.

[blevine15]

Thanks for all the tips. I had done a fair amount of post processing to this image. It was shot in very uneven light. I tried to even it out and boosted the saturation, (probably to much). It has been cropped already. I am posting the original shot, please feel free to work it. Thanks again for the suggestions.

[CyberDyneSystems]

I didn't try anything else,.. but this is the sort of crop I'd be looking for :)

If the green in the upper right bugged me I'd clone it out.. but otherwise.. this is the image I saw in your post.