Dude is called the Common Bronzewing. I’m sure we’d be fonder of pigeons if this one were common around here. As it is, you want the bronzewing, head for Australia. Here’s his missus:
The photos I’ve shown here (throughout the site, actually) are all unedited jpegs taken right out of the camera (a Nikon D40 in the case of the Australia trip). They’re composed in the camera, uncropped & uncorrected. Most of them were shot in Program mode, although I controlled exposure. They represent an honest attempt to …
Like everybody else, I’m in love with the golden light just at/after sunset. I had a 55-200mm f/4-5.6 Nikon lens mounted almost all the time in Australia, because I was just enchanted with the birds (almost always far-ish away) and the architectural details of the buildings in Melbourne. But even with VR, shooting handheld at …
I know. Amazing, eh? You should hear the noise they make when they’re unhappy …