2500 handsome Sunbirds shots plus 5 and 1 lovely.

[Luis (Chito) Limchiu]

Just came back from Bislig with the most hardcore group of Bird photogs (5 guys-Rey, Alain, Myself, Tonji, Nilo, and 1 Gal -Sylvia) where we had a close encounter, on a flowering tree, our namesake handsome sunbird and despite the continuous rain, with umbrellas spread on our gears, we, all 6, dutifully fired our "guns away ad infinitum. Ok, maybe just a slight exaggeration, but by my estimate at least 200 shots each X 6 =1200 handsome sunbird images (a world record?). Unfortunately I cannot show all 1200 shots for now but here are a couple of samples from me.
Handsome Sunbird (Aethopyga bella bella) Philippines Endemic Jan 29, 2011, Bislig, Surigao del Sur.
Canon 1DMk2 canon 300mm f4 IS 1.4 kenko TC 420mm handheld, available light, iso 800 1/400 f 7.1


Canon 1DMk2 Canon 300mm f4 IS 1.4 kenko TC 420mm Handheld available light iso 800 1/400 f 7.1 Jan 29 2011, Bislig




Tired but happy. The company was great with Nikki and Zardo assisting us.

Chito

[Dennis Alfaro]

great pictures Doc with nice feather details

[alainpascua]

Now you are starting to post Doc... Do we expect the more than 200 sunbird pictures in this thread? Please make some notifications so everybody anticipates the 200 sunbirds!

Congrats for nailing this sunbird, our namesake as you say, with the flowers in very clean background.

I'm seeing some magenta cast on the upper edges of the flowers and on the feet and beak. I guess we experience the same notorious magenta cast effect in our cameras.

[Luis (Chito) Limchiu]

True Alain, the cast is the purple bifringence due the light subject against the dark background, which I could have but failed to remove in the post process. I was just too tired to reprocess. I will try to reprocess soon. Ty for the comment.

[Luis (Chito) Limchiu]

BTW any of you guys can post at will here, Just limit siguro na lang to 199 pics.

[William Lim]

Wow, this is one dream bird to shoot. Beautiful, Chito.

[mantarey]

Fantastic images Doc Chito. I wouldn't mind looking at the other 1,200 pictures if it's this beautiful.

[Ely Teehankee]

Truly a handsome bird. Well done Chito. Mabuhay.

[Tateo Osawa]

Very nice color Doc Chito and detail good.

[Tonji Ramos]

Very nice Doc.

200 pictures each, hehe sounds about right.

You were great company on the trip Doc, it was great shooting with you.

[Ronnie Dominguez]

great shots, very very handsome indeed

[Edwin Matias]

Great Series Doc Chito