oh well caught in flight. My birds in flight luck is around zero

Very nice portrait. Great natural smile. Happy birthday!

'fixed' version, double size to zoom in on chippy
https://flic.kr/p/2jgCUij

Birthday greetings from DownUnder Zion. Hope you have a great day. A memorable date here - last day of the financial year!
Fab. mono portrait Dad; relaxed, cheerfully engaging pose to work with. Very nice focus and tonality and no missing the eye sparkle/catchlights.

This is mega, love everything about it.
Also curious about the structure?

Great vista in b+w. Like Rod, I’m curious about that structure...

Superb B&W, so clear. The Sun's rendering has me thinking of a nuke bomb going off. What is the foreground structure?

Thanks for pointing out the color problem, Rod. I am often taken by a relatively new auto white balance setting in RT that gives punch to colors, but I think maybe because of green color blindness that I have, I sometimes miss when things don't look right. I'm not going to redo this stitch right now because of all the work, but here's an example of the correction I would make with the single frame using the older auto white balance of RT that made it warmer as it should be for the shade, and should keep it from being too green. And I also found I had the vibrancy setting too high...
https://www.tmphillips.com/pg/picture.php?/60029/category/828

Almost like one of Rods 3D things where you nearly go blind. Glad for the other shot and almost gave up on that one =)

Lovely location for a hike. Definitely needed the other photo to id the little critter!