[Leica] Mejiro (Japanese white-eye)

[geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk (Peter Cheyne)]

Thanks for the comments, Ted & George.

I love mejiro.  They are so cute, colourful, and curious!  Their  
yellow orange breasts reflected the orange of the fruit, and when the  
light was right, the rest of their feathers would glow green.

I was two metres away from the birds, and had the crop the photos  
quite a bit.  Mind, that Canadian 90 Summicron is one of my favourite  
lenses.  Sharp as a straight razor, as Ted says, and with a wonderful  
colour palette, sometimes a bit cool, often in pastel shades.  Lovely  
for portraits and I find it can be used to show natural scenes as  
painterly presentations.

All the best,

Peter Cheyne