Taken in Sabino Canyon. I really liked that this desert bird perched on a Cholla cactus for me. I did clone out one stem of the cactus above the head.
I love the cactus perch, Skip. Was this a very large crop? The image quality doesn’t seem to be up to your usual fine standards.
Not a large crop, I think, but more not having time to zoom to full 400mm and the high ISO. I might have oversharpened some also.
This looks like something went wrong in processing if this is not a bit crop.
Cool bird and Cactus, maybe try a re-do?
I do like the pose and the perch. Yeah the processing is a little off it seems. I’m wondering whether altering the white balance a bit might make it look a little better. Certainly would be worth trying some things.