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Bluelight weekly photography contest Round 30: Birds

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RULES
1. Any photograph or variation of a photograph which has been previously submitted for one of the contest rounds cannot be used in subsequent rounds of the contest.

2. Photographs must be your original work and that has never been copyrighted or, if copyrighted, that you are the sole copyright owner of.
2a. No submitting pictures for other people, for friends, etc. Your OWN work, very simple.

3. Only one photograph may be entered per contest.

4. All photographs must be free of watermarks, signatures and borders

5. Photographs must be no wider than 700 and no higher than 700.

6. Deadline for entries is 12am eastern on the posted deadline date.

7. Voting ends at 12am eastern on the posted end date.

8. Post your images in the appropriate thread in the form of an image, not a link to click on.

9. Don't be a dummy and vote for your own photo, try and make it fun.

Be reminded that this is a photo contest and so images which have been heavily manipulated through an image editing software will not be accepted. To put everyone on a level playing field, editing should be restricted to cropping and resizing.

Images which are not relevant to the week's theme will be automatically removed.

If you have a problem with another contestant's entry adhering to the contest guidelines, please PM the forum moderators. Do not try to begin a debate about the issue within the contest submission or poll thread! There will be zero tolerance towards any attempts to devolve a contest thread into a bash-fest or witch hunt.

We will pick the next theme and post it the night a contest ends for the next round so people have a full 7 days to take pictures and submit them. After all the entries have been posted, a poll will be added on the last night, so people can vote. Voting will take place from midnight to midnight over the following 2 days (12am Sunday - 12am Tuesday).

Those who wish to participate in sharing full versions of their entries may do so by providing a link only to the full sized version in the same post as their entry.

Thank you and have fun!
 
I got very lucky with this shot.

It was taken at Abbercrombie Caves in NSW Australia.

This is a noisy minor, its a wild bird and there had been no rain in this area for years and years.

I was about 20m away and staying dead still hoping he would let me get the shot.

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fuck! i was just at my parent's place and there were a whole lot of brightly coloured birds in the yard. i forgot about this theme!
 
Given I'm not really a huge bird fan, I was surprised that I had quite a few photos to choose from. Anyway, I've gone for mr ducky, because I liked the expression on his face :-)

*changed my mind - see later post*


Mazdan... that's very cool!
 
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Very cool pic MazDan :)

This is a Rainbow Lorikeet, took the photo when I was in Australia. I actually have one as a pet, but trying to get a photo of her is so hard because she likes cameras so much she'll stop what she's doing and want to play with the lens etc. So yeah...haha

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I have better photos of birds and the lens I used for this one is just awful but it gets my thumbs up because the rarity of being able to photograph a family of kookaburras in the one place. I took a few photos from side on, but I was lucky to be able to creep around and get one shot off.

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Dooofus.........Eagle or osprey or what? Im surprised seeing a bird of prey in that sort of situation.........unusual.

Kat.......is that duck looking to peck you?


Loony........great pic bro............how regal does the kooka look? Beautiful bird.
 
MazDan - I've got no idea mate, it visited the same beach restaurant every day and apparently it had been doing so for years. No-one ever fed it so I don't think that's the reason it kept coming... quite unusual.
 
Damn!. These rounds are getting tougher and tougher. Excellent pics all round guys!
 
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