[jomike]

On Friday afternoon, just as the sun was setting, I saw some sparrows sitting in the hedge outside. I managed to get this one, handholding 1/80s at 300mm with the old faithful Siggy 70-300mm APO. Who needs IS/VR anyway

I like the warm light that caught the sparrow just right. It was about the only time that day the sun shone!

Mike

[onefivenine]

Wonderful colours Mike, and I like your use of dof with that subtle out of focus foreground

[philaitman]

Thats a cracker. It has a lovely warm eveing feel.

[Holowlegs]

Hello there

Looks like old faithful has done a great job for you there.

Great colour and a great catch.


Cheers Holo

[vulkan75]

Really nice catch love the color.

[tontoshorse]

That, good sir, is an excellent capture.

[TarMoo]

A very good shot.

[Mike.P®]

Impressive shot actually, when my K10D arrives I hope I can take just as good a picture .. we shall see

[Yandros]

That's just gorgeous. Very well caught!

[T0MAT01]

Very nice shot. It looks like spring is on it's way at last!

[electrolyte]

That's a lovely shot there Mike, lovely colours too. Nice one.

[jomike]

Thanks for looking and commenting all.

This was a lucky shot in more ways than one because after I took it, I decided to delete all the non keepers in camera, and, you guessed it, I deleted this one as well .
On Saturday I set Don't Panic to grind its way through the 300+ RAW shots on the card, and after running for about 14 hrs, I was relieved to see this shot pop out.

Mike

[jenufa]

Great capture

[Paulie-W]

Lovely shot, great colour too

Not so fast on that Delete button next time eh

[rrfierce]

great shot, just goes to show what a good lens the sigma is!

[johnaalex]

Good shot Mike, a little bit of luck can go a long way