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Thanks.  Yes- just a few yards away and I was surprised it ignored me completely.  I probably overtweaked the sat on the raw conversion.

This cardinal sat on this prickly pear cactus gorging from the fruit for about half an hour and was quite oblivious to my presence. , Taken in S. Arizona where significant spring rains have ...

While the local "superbloom" pales in comparison with the scale and richness of the blooms in the Walker Valley in California, it is still exciting to see  the normally arid and dusty Sonoran ...

Thanks for the positive comments.  I always enjoy your images from Florida.  Here is another bird unique to the SW that is widely found but I find appealing nonetheless.

Thanks for the comments.  Not much cropping, but I did reduce the size to approximately 2400 pixels on the long side. I am having the same internal debate about moving up to the 100-400.  Hoping ...

The first is a male broad-billed hummingbird... Here are several views of a rufous hummingbird - a new species on my bird list.. Looks flashy when the sunlight catches throat at the right angle A ...

I was recently faced with a sunset shot and exposed for the sky in raw with the expectation that I could bring up the dark foreground in PP.  Several responders to my sunset image suggested ...

Obviously I did not want the desert area to be black, but to have its brightness and detail match what I was seeing with my eye in near dusk conditions (even allowing for the fact that neither ...

Thanks for your comment- a few people have commented on the dark foreground. Are you looking at it on the gallery page as I am seeing good detail - remember it is dusk. Also, maybe there is some ...

I agree - but if you had seen the RAW original, the desert floor was essential black with no visible detail, so I already pulled in about two stops plus.  As it was not destined to hang on a ...

No matter how many sunsets you see, there is always a surprise.  An advancing cold front at sunset provided the following. I exposed for sky, adjusted the under-exposed desert areas in Capture 1, ...

My experience over the last ten winters in the Phoenix area suggests that your dates may be a little late to catch the peak of the blooms of the bushes and desert floor plants - but the saguaro ...

Thanks for the review.  Where were you able to purchase this in the US - or did you order it from China?

Lovely image of a rarely seen (for me) bird.  Thanks for the useful info on the technical side.  In spite of the cropping there is still good detail.

Note there is another thread on this: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4345455#forum-post-62006950 Some suggestions there on how to make the focus speed faster with the 150-600c.

Search should be your first stop before asking others..... Took me 5 seconds to find..... https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4123071

I am bumping this as I hope someone who has used this combo will respond.  I am thinking of getting the MC 11 and 150-600 C.