Yellow-billed Blue Magpie

Clicked during a morning walk in Nagni village, Tirthan Valley. The light was dappled and I didn't really have hopes for an action-freezing image, but I suppose the experimental 2.8 Av helped.

Canon 500D, Canon 100mm macro USM
SS 1/800
Av 2.8
ISO 400
EC -1
Moderate crop for composition

Thanks, C&C welcome.

nice view...

Nice freeze.Would have have loved to see the details in form and colour of this beautiful bird.Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful - a couple of seconds later you would have got the bird in full. nice DOF even at 2.8.

thanks for sharing

Rajan

The wingspan is nice. The lighting at that spot was nice for the wings to glow. Together with the two brights spots in the foliage, the wings form an imaginary triangle and helps in the composition. Though as a photographer you don't have control over it, some light in the right bottom corner would have been great. This image shows that the bird is just taking off. Overall I like this image. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi

Nice feel to the image Abhishek. wish the tail was fully out fo the foilage.
TFS
Roopak

Thanks all.
Yes, I would have liked to get the tail clearly visible too. Have to live with 3fps at the moment :).

superb action freeze