Cardinal

[TimS]

I try to space these out so no one tires of "Tim's Birds", anyway hope someone out there enjoys viewing these as much as I enjoy photographing them.

[gwpriester]

Cardinal with seed in beak. Beautiful. If you posted a photo an hour it would not be too many.

[wizard509]

Beautiful, Tim. Thanks for posting. Kind of a nostalgia thing for me, takes me clear back to grade school.

[spondoolix]

I am certainly enjoying these photographs and appreciate the patience required in taking them.

[pauland]

I really like it.

Do you have one that shows the bird table a little more?

Paul

[TimS]

Thanks all,
Gary your too kind.
Pauland....it's not a table, in fact it's the railing on our steps, along with my feeders, I put unsalted peanuts and sometimes cranberries in different places around my yard to try to get different "photo opportunities"

[pauland]

OK, I see.

I was curious how the composition would be with the bird bottom right, rather than centre frame.

[TimS]

I agree it's a pretty static composition, but it really was what I was looking for. I live in a "row" house smack dab in the middle, houses to the left of me, houses to the right of me, car's in front of me. I prefer not to show any of that in my photo's. Perhaps you prefer this composition??

[pauland]

They are both equally good.

I was just suggesting that it would be intriguing to have seen either of those shots as a quarter or a third of the image. The depth of field is so narrow the surroundings needn't be recognisable.

As a picture of a bird, they are great. As a picture they might have even more resonance if the rule of thirds was in play. I don't know.

[buckobeck]

I love your birds. Thanks for sharing them. Birds use to be my thing, so I know you must be a patient guy.