New Joiners - Animals #566

The flowers and colours in the background are divine and complement these beautiful bee eaters. You've captured some fabulous action here with great exposure, focus, composition and depth: it's shallow enough to not add distracting elements to the background whilst still showing some context.

The foliage in the foreground and background helps to frame this subject incredibly well, paired with a shallow depth of field to draw you in and keeping you fixated on this handsome buck. The colour palette is natural & aesthetically pleasing with good focus and exposure.

The light is divine in this image and I love the simplicity and beautiful reflections. The exposure is spot on with no blown highlights and the focus and depth of field are also good. The colour palette is warm but natural and aesthetically pleasing.

This image works really well in black and white with great contrast and detail. The focus is spot on but I always recommend increasing your depth of field when you have more than one subject in the frame to ensure they're both in focus.

You captured this sparrow in a fantastic position with great shape in the wings and those perfectly extended legs and toes! The light and colour palette is warm and aesthetically pleasing and the fast shutter speed ensured that the motion was frozen.

The colour palette in this image is divine with gorgeous warm hues without being oversaturated. The composition is clean and aesthetically pleasing with no distracting elements and you've nailed the focus on the eyes and face which draws you into the image.

This is such a comical image and yet is still captivating and thought provoking. The square crop works really well with good exposure, focus and depth. Whilst it's worked here, be cautious with dropping your shutter speed to low with moving subjects.

I love the beautiful expression this lion has, almost as if he's in awe of his surroundings. The foreground foliage frames him really well and draws you in to those golden eyes, helped further with the direction he's looking and that fabulous contrast.

I love how well the trunks of the trees frame this image and that eye contact is piercing and engaging. The soft bokeh in the background works really well and the focus is pin sharp on the monkey. A fabulous image!

The bokeh in the background is absolutely divine in this image and works with the foreground to frame the subjects. The focus is spot on with all four in focus despite what looks like a shallow depth of field and the colour palette is gorgeous.

I love the shallow depth of field on this image and you've focused perfectly on the eyes which can be really challenging with a shallow depth of field. The composition is fabulous and the expression on the joey is engaging and comical.

What a fantastic and rare sighting! The golden colour palette is divine and aesthetically pleasing and I like the reflection in the water. The shallow depth of field helps to reduce any distracting elements in the background and the composition is good with the subject looking into the frame.