Birds from the park

[benny]

Hi guys,

Managed to find some time to go out yesterday with ockly, learner and friends. Here are the some of the results...

Some Macaw portraits







These are really noisy fellas. Quarrelsome too.

Cheers,

[benny]

A landscape presentation..



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[benny]

Also got some pictures of the mandarin duck.



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[benny]

Another two pictures of the same subject in landscape format.





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[benny]

Here's a close up portrait of the saddle bill stock.



One thing about stocks is that they are tall and skinny. Composition is always a challenge, both in portrait and landscape format unless you can blur out the background completely.

Cheers,

[benny]

I can't remember the name of this one. Got it mixed up and now I'm not sure.. Does anyone know?



Not exactly the most graceful presentation, but I thought the posture makes it interesting. These birds have amazing balance on one leg.

Cheers,

[benny]

Another few unidentified birds...





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[benny]

I like the curious posture of this one, but too bad the background was ruined....Shame!!



These sing really well and sometimes, they hang around outside my office balcony too. There's a pair outside now as I type this!! Unbelievable!

Cheers,

[benny]

Here's the red ibis.



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[benny]

Parting shot...



For those interested. These are shot with the Canon EF 300 mm F2.8 IS L lens with the Canon 1Ds MK2. Some are supplemented with either 1.4X and/or 2X teleconverters. Most of the pictures are cropped but some are just resized. Some of the subjects are shot through fencing and hence the strange fore/background.

All photographs were taken at the Jurong Bird Park.

Hope you guys like it.

Cheers,

[ranmasatome]

that green parrot is a macaw meh?? i dotn thnk so leh..

[benny]

that green parrot is a macaw meh?? i dotn thnk so leh..

Don't know. They were all together in the Macaw enclosure. Any idea?

Cheers,

[|squee|]

Nice pics benny! The first one looks wicked. And the first pic of the mandarin duck was just beautiful. budak will give you a kiss for that.

[Simon]

very sharp pic!!! i like the 1st mandarin.. why neber chio me?

[ccs]

that green parrot is a macaw meh?? i dotn thnk so leh..

Yah it is a macaw.Its name is military macaw.

[learner]

seeing red


yellow and blue


yellow and blue and green

[learner]

have to work on my composition

[learner]

A lost cat in JBP?

[learner]

a rather distracting background


an experimental shot

[wong1979]

Pretty decent shots by learner, of course not comparable to benny's L lens . What's urs? EFs 18-55mm ? If that's so, I'm impressed