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Yellow Wagtail Serenade

Yellow Wagtail Serenade

Yellow wagtail singing with joy to welcome the arrival of Swedish spring.

Yellow wagtail singing with joy to welcome the arrival of Swedish spring.
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NIKON D800

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Aperture f/8.0 ISO 1250 Shutter 1/2000

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May, 2014

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Awards

$700 Cash Prize

Contest Finalist in Spring Photo Contest 2017

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Magnificent Capture

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very nice, great capture

Great composition and DOF, congrats on your feature!

Lovely shot of this chirpy wagtail. Congratulations on being Featured.

Alven - this is excellent. Composition, focal point, the expression all beautifully presented. Congratulations !!

Beautiful shot...congratulations on your feature! :D

Aw, it looks so happy :) Beautiful shot

Lovely bokeh!

Superb

Beautiful.. Congrats! ")

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OMG, wonderful picture !!!!!!!! congratulations !

Nice one mate :)

bravo

Wow, what a great surprise! Thank you all for the warm comments :-)

Beautiful shot! Congrats!!

So cute, wonderful singing......great capture. Congrats on the feature.

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Nice capture. Congrats on your feature.

congrats... awesome

Beautiful shot.Congrats!

Beautiful shot. I'm so envious!

hopes hes in little bird contest,nice

Unfortunately I missed entering this little guy before it was too late... :-(

Amazing capture

Congrats!!!

Exceptional

Perfect!

beautiful shot!

Beautiful

wonderful colors.

Beautiful!!

Platinum

This bird look to be truly happy to be alive. This close depth of field shot look great. You nailed it!

Beautiful shot!

So cute little ones.

congratulations..you deserved to win.

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all-time favorite,love your style

Beautiful and cute.

good composition, nice shot

Amazing shallow depth of field

Gorgeous capture of this little critter !

Platinum

Love the idea and the creative DOF you can almost hear that song!

Join the conversation. Add a comment or even better, a critique. Let's get better together!

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Congrats with being a contest finalist with this beautiful image.

NICELY DONE CONGRATULATIONS! ON YOUR WIN!

so so CoOoL

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