Portrait Session with a Blackbird--in the hot sunshine (dialup warning)

[Celebration]

I approached him when he was hanging out with his friends,


He asked me for some candid portrait photos, so I obliged


He tried a couple of different poses




He said he looked too fat in this one, so we decided to move


To the bison fence. Want to know what got his feathers ruffled?


All the attention the baby bison were getting!




Finally the tractor distracted him


Or was it another bird?


Wait! Hold your chin just so! Whoops...


Finally, I think he decided on this one, he thought this was a flattering tilt of the face


I was ready for the air conditioning after that photo shoot!

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

1. Nice shots!

Getting birds to sit still is the challenge for me.......I'll spot one and by the time I get my camera aimed and focused,*POOF* it's gone! :)

[Celebration]

2. I hear ya!

The reason I posted these was not because any one of them was a remarkable photo, but because it was so remarkable that I got so many shots off, in so many different poses. In truth, these are two different blackbirds, of course, one that posed for me by the million tree planting area, and another that was across the road, by the bison, who posed on a fence post. But it made a nice story.

I do like the one with the tractor for some reason.

[hippywife]

3. What a fun pictoral.

Great shots. :hi:

[Mira]

4. What you do with birds,

your enjoyment, your abandon, your presentation and your love simply enrich my life.
And I thank you for that in a huge way.

[Celebration]

5. Credit the birds

Sometimes they beg for their story to be told ;)

You photos seem to tell a great story in one picture--I seem to need several. That's probably why I like making slideshows. Of course, I could try to opt for talking, whistling, chirping frames.