Nurturing survival by Linda Jones

Monday, 25th February 2008

Nurturing survival

by Linda Jones

I had the pleasure of watching the true mother nature. She did a good job. They were gone in 14 days.

Equipment: Canon 20D, 70-200f4IS

Linda Jones

I love the outdoors, creative arts, music and staying in touch with the earth. Photography is a hobby that reaches my soul.

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21 Comments

Calvin Says:
February 25th, 2008 at 1:42 am
This is so cool! Great job LInda!
kml Says:
February 25th, 2008 at 3:08 am
How lucky you were! You did a great job capturing these little beauties - just magnificent!
Anurag Says:
February 25th, 2008 at 7:02 am
Fantastic. I like the dark background. The out of focus leaves give a nice feeling of camouflage. Complimentary pair of green and red on the mother and child gives a sense of bonding and completeness, that alone either one of them is incomplete, and the sidelight is just gorgeous.
Dennis Says:
February 25th, 2008 at 7:28 am
Great use of depth of field and focus. It lakes for a nice and intimate portrait.
David Doe Says:
February 25th, 2008 at 7:40 am
That is just beautiful Linda. I love shots like that one. Kudos girl!!!
Terry Everson Says:
February 25th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Superb photo.I like the lighting and the framing is just perfect
Reuben Chircop Says:
February 25th, 2008 at 8:30 am
very nice closeup, I am sure you were quite well hidden to get this shot. The contrast between young and grown is so vivid.
Pauline Jones Says:
February 25th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Great shot, how did you get so close without scaring the bird away?
Tom Brooklyn Says:
February 25th, 2008 at 9:52 am
- Great subject and moment.
- Too much bokah. Looks more like a muslin than an outdoor shot.
- There’s something in the way in the foreground obviously that ruins the pic. Not EarthShots Quality.
- Where on Earth this is, is not even specified. I suggest all submissions that do not include this information be rejected.
poster boy Says:
February 25th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
The foreground blur does spoil it somewhat but I think ur being a bit harsh there Tom - it’s worthy of Earthshots for the great capture that it is. Taking shots of nature is not like in a studio where you can set it up perfectly - sometimes you have to go with what you are given and Linda did well without disturbing them.
Renee Says:
February 25th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
So cute Linda! Great shot!
Ellie Says:
February 25th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Linda,

Stunning. Gives the viewer a great sense of intimacy with the moment.

Ellie
Eileen Says:
February 25th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I am with Calvin way cool an kml how lucky you were.. Great shot. Good for you Linda… EZ
Linda Jones Says:
February 26th, 2008 at 3:46 am
Hello, and thank you for the nice comments, and I appreciate the constructive critique!
The reason why the bokeh is so weird is because I had tons of branches to shoot through, which without destroying the protective cover of the nest, left me literally threading the needle. ;~)
I sure am thrilled to have it chosen for photo of the day. Thanks again!

And thanks Ellen for the email or I would have not even known it was chosen, having been gone all week! I was at Death Valley, hoping to get some cool landscape photos. it did feel very intimate, as she was shy at first, but soon allowed me fairly close.

This photo was taken at a nature walk/park near me in Irvine, California.
a. Says:
February 26th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Truly beautiful. One of my favorites. What an incredible moment in time. I love the light on the larger bird.
Kinan Jarjous Says:
February 26th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
A beautiful photo full of love. Wonderful! One of the best on the site.
freckels Says:
February 27th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Amazing! Photographic brilliance- and pretty darned cool.
Tiffany Shaughnessy Says:
February 27th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Linda!! Woo Hoo.. great photo! I really like the detail of this one. Congrats!!
Linda Jones Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 6:47 am
Thnx again, everyone. We had a ritual going on where every day I would go stand by the tree, calling her Lil’Anna, then the mother came, sat in the tree above me and watched. Finally after a few complaints by her, she’d zoom around me and then show up out of nowhere to feed them. Giving me about 4 seconds to get a few shots off. The light was strictly a ray of sun through the leaves, so I had to wait until afternoon. I tried flash one day and she was frightened by it, so I never used it again. I feel fortunate to have the experience.
Pieter -sAner- van der Horst Says:
February 29th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Nice and sharp. Whatever was in between your lens and the bird’s nest spoils it a bit though.
yasmin Says:
May 21st, 2008 at 4:09 am
excellent capture, and shows the beauty of life…