Show off your Peas!

[margaret8]

Haha, but I think that's in the wrong thread

Uh-oh!

 

[Arbor]

The other thread got locked.  

Just shows I've been away a while I guess

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Quote: I have about 600 posts still to read through...

 

[BYC-user-174785]

I have no idea of what to submit for the Striking Male Fowl contest... I simply do not have favorites, only birds that I temporarily do not like! I knew this is show off your peas, but lets just say these birds all live with my peas, and there are some peas in the running. I do have plenty of pictures of each, so what bird should I choose?

Red Golden Pheasant

Lady Amherst Pheasant

Temminck's Tragopan. I so badly want a picture of a frontal display. But he has been removed of hen privileges, so no more displays...

White Peacock

Opal WE Peacock

Impeyan Pheasant. That was taken today when he had feathers sticking out. He is a challenge to photograph but his colors in sunlight are stunning. I can always get better ones.

Smew Drake. I took that today, and couldn't find the nice ones I have of him.

Silver Wood Duck Drake

Regular Wood Duck Drake. I got some good ones of him today.


This was taken today as well. He is gorgeous when he displays in the sun, but he never does when I have a camera...

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Blue Creek,your Opal w/e Peacock seems to show pied in his throat as well? I so hoped last year I would hatch one barred winged Opal,since my male Opal b/s had a regular Opal and regular Opal P[ied hen with him,as well as 2 opal b/s hens, but all chicks that hatched last year were hens that was Opal in color. Maybe this year tho. I took my Opal pied hen and moved her in with Thang,who is a Silver pied. Maybe get a few Opal pieds this summer from this breeding

 

[MinxFox]

I got a couple good pictures of Fred today, so I entered him in that striking male fowl contest(or whatever it's called) Thought we'd give Pie some real competition since those Roosters don't really hold a candle to our boys!

I saw your photos in the contest. I was amazed at how the colors look in this photo. He is so green looking it is like you played with the color settings, but I know you didn't. It is just so neat how their colors change in different light. That is such a nice green color!

 

[ellymayRans]

I saw your photos in the contest. I was amazed at how the colors look in this photo. He is so green looking it is like you played with the color settings, but I know you didn't. It is just so neat how their colors change in different light. That is such a nice green color!

I have noticed I see a lot of purple and bronze colors on my IB when he's in the sun. Like a hologram of colors! Always amazes me!

**Beautiful shots Dylansmom***

 

[zazouse]

I have no idea of what to submit for the Striking Male Fowl contest... I simply do not have favorites, only birds that I temporarily do not like! I knew this is show off your peas, but lets just say these birds all live with my peas, and there are some peas in the running. I do have plenty of pictures of each, so what bird should I choose?

Red Golden Pheasant

Lady Amherst Pheasant

Temminck's Tragopan. I so badly want a picture of a frontal display. But he has been removed of hen privileges, so no more displays...

White Peacock

Opal WE Peacock

Impeyan Pheasant. That was taken today when he had feathers sticking out. He is a challenge to photograph but his colors in sunlight are stunning. I can always get better ones.

Smew Drake. I took that today, and couldn't find the nice ones I have of him.

Silver Wood Duck Drake

Regular Wood Duck Drake. I got some good ones of him today.


This was taken today as well. He is gorgeous when he displays in the sun, but he never does when I have a camera...

Wow any of these would have been great in the striking fowl contest, beautiful birds and lots of pretty colors

 

[DylansMom]

I saw your photos in the contest. I was amazed at how the colors look in this photo. He is so green looking it is like you played with the color settings, but I know you didn't. It is just so neat how their colors change in different light. That is such a nice green color!

I didn't mess with the color, I can't do that with my photo software and I do not have any photoshop software. I did fiddle with the contrast which my software allows me to do, if you look at the pic it looks really bright where his head and neck is, on either side the colors look duller. I actually took the pic thru my wire fence and there are 2 blurred out wires 1/2 inch from the camera lens, they made both sides of the pic look dull and almost foggy, so I tried to sharpen that up a bit. I hope that I didn't inadvertently break any rules. I wasn't trying to change his appearance, just minimize the effect of those wires in the foreground. Every time I went in the pen he would stop fanning, so I had to take it thru the fence.

That is what his color looks like in direct sun, and yes it is amazing how different they can look in different types of light.
Here is another pic in almost the same position, but the wire in this one is in front of him, see how cloudy it made the pic like it dulled down everything, that is what I tried to eliminate in the other one, so do you think I need to pull that one and take another?

 

[DylansMom]

I have no idea of what to submit for the Striking Male Fowl contest... I simply do not have favorites, only birds that I temporarily do not like! I knew this is show off your peas, but lets just say these birds all live with my peas, and there are some peas in the running. I do have plenty of pictures of each, so what bird should I choose?

Red Golden Pheasant

Lady Amherst Pheasant

Temminck's Tragopan. I so badly want a picture of a frontal display. But he has been removed of hen privileges, so no more displays...

White Peacock

Opal WE Peacock

Impeyan Pheasant. That was taken today when he had feathers sticking out. He is a challenge to photograph but his colors in sunlight are stunning. I can always get better ones.

Smew Drake. I took that today, and couldn't find the nice ones I have of him.

Silver Wood Duck Drake

Regular Wood Duck Drake. I got some good ones of him today.


This was taken today as well. He is gorgeous when he displays in the sun, but he never does when I have a camera...

I would enter the red golden, those colors just POP. It is a contest for Most Striking and I would say the red and yellow is quite striking. Why is your Trag in time out?