Malachite Kingfisher, by Wild Images
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Wild Images is our first featured photographer on the DPNow Picture of the Day this week.
This image has been taken from an early section of the DPNow gallery archive, back in November 2006. Wild Images hails from South Africa and his gallery is full of amazing images, mainly but not exclusively birds, from the bush. This malachite kingfisher with its impressive beak, has been captured almost perfectly. The angle of the stick that the bird is perched on adds much to the already impressive look of the kingfisher and the background is completely blurred out. This picture was taken using a Nikon D70, which shows that you don't necessarily need expensive pro-level equipment to get stunning results.
Would you like one of your pictures featured on DPNow's POTD?
We are always on the look out for great pictures posted to the user-galleries here on DPNow. POTDs are selected from the gallery and featured every week day. The gallery facility here is completely free; all you need to do is register as a user on our discussion forum and you will get an automatic 25MB of space, which is good for around 125 pictures uploaded at web resolution, about 200K per picture. At the time of writing we had just over 12,000 pictures on the galleries and it's well worth a browse.
Picture of the month
At the end of each month we will select our favourite image of the month and declare a Picture of the Month.
The DPNow Golden Gallery
Our ultimate accolade, the DPNow Golden Gallery, is reserved for what we feel are the very finest images. We invite anyone to submit their pictures for inclusion in the Golden Gallery. Why not have a look at the Golden Gallery submission form? The vast majority are usually rejected, which is why we feel that the ones we do feature are extra special.
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