Exotic Pigeon

Posted by Craig Persel (Montreal, Canada) on 13 October 2006 in Animal & Insect and Portfolio.

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Comments (16)

Shuva Brata Deb from Hyderabad, India

What a lovely piece of photography. How can you leave that "Untitled"?

13 Oct 2006 5:14am

Manuela from Hainburg, Germany

Absolutly wonderful.. the colours, the details of the feathers, the red eye!
Are you sure it is a pigeon?
Or more like an "exotic blue bird"...

13 Oct 2006 6:51am

@Manuela: Thanks. I also thought it was a blubird, but an "expert" told me I was mistaken and that it is actually a type of pigeon. I'm still not 100% certain one way or the other. :-)

Rodion Kovenkin from Mogilev, Belarus

WONDERFUL!!! BRILLIANT!!!
Good Job!

13 Oct 2006 7:00am

Helen from Melbourne, Australia

Incredible bird ... amazing photo ... the red eye on the blue does it for me!

13 Oct 2006 7:00am

Suby and Sinem from Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

And guess what, it know it is beautiful :) Lovely

Suby

13 Oct 2006 7:43am

Srinivas from Vizag, India

Very beautiful craig, i cant believe it belongs to a pigeon family. It has the got peacock's grace and you executed the shot very well.

13 Oct 2006 7:58am

Damon Schreiber from Toronto, Canada

Beautiful bird, of course, but perfectly focussed, composed and exposed.

13 Oct 2006 8:07am

Claireg from Dendermonde, Belgium

great shot! the feathers are so clear

13 Oct 2006 12:02pm

Jason Kravitz from Brussels, Belgium

I have seen some nice looking pigeons but this one is by far the most exotic. Good capture

13 Oct 2006 2:28pm

Aaron Schmidt from Auckland, New Zealand

Absolutely stunning. Could easily be in National Geographic.

13 Oct 2006 4:17pm

THE JUXTAPOSED IMAGE from Tallahassee, Fl, United States

OUTSTANDING PHOTOGRAPHY

13 Oct 2006 5:02pm

Kelvin Chan from New York City, United States

your pigeon vs. my seagull. so far 1-0. :(
but very nice and sharp. did you use unsharp mask?

13 Oct 2006 6:06pm

@Kelvin Chan: Yes, I used unsharp mask, but I can't remember the setting for this image. I find that about 99.99% of digital images need some level of sharpening. If I remember correctly I also increased the contrast.