Incredible detail and vivid colours! Superb shot!

Gorgeous as always, Macro Boy. That lovely intersection of a very tight focal range with the detail in subject seems to be one of your specialities :)

really cool macro. you using a macro lens? i love how the line goes. very nice.

Excellent DOF here. Incredible capture!

Beautiful closeup of a peacock feather. I love the iridescent colors and the texture.

gorgeous, as always, but with a little 'fingernails down the blackboard' frisson to it. being enormously european, my bones tell me that peacock feathers are unlucky, whilst having a penchant for all things eastern I should really see them as being highly auspicious. oh me oh me...

Love the deep colors and lines, beautiful shot.

Excellent detail. I love the textures and color in the feathers on the right side of the image. great macro

Lovely macro, i want a peacock feather now too. I love the colours.

Thanks, guys, I appreciate the kind words. As it happens, I gave away all twelve of the ones I salvaged while at work today - it would have been easy enough to post them on to interested people, but it just didn't occur to me before; sorry. Besides, they come with a fair amount of superstition attached; this didn't bother me overly, but my loved ones were gently vocal enough to put me off keeping them for the sake of my own sanity! Fun to capture though, and there are many more shots where this came from, though I'll keep them to myself for the sake of variety!

Super vivid. You can keep the feathers. Just keep bringing shots like this.

Love the detail and the patterns of this shot. Excellent.

Knew straight away what I was looking at, but still have never seen one from such an interesting perspective. Well done.

Amazing colour and detail - it's silky.

plain and simple. great sharpness. fantastic colours... brilliant shot.

Absolutely beautiful! Great sharpness & clarity. The texture on the right side of the frame is exquisite!

awesome macro! I've never seen this perspective in a peacock photo, great idea!

Killer beautiful. Don't think I've ever seen a peacock feather this close before. Very nice.

Beautiful colour!!

excellent detail alastair and choice of dof.

Oh wow... beautiful shot. The colours just radiate out and the patterns are so nice. So good, its sick (in a jealous sort of way!)

Excellent macro shot

wow, totally took my breath away!

nice detail and colors! very attractive macro!

A well deserved noteworthy! Superb! Sassy;-)

Anything from a peacock is very interesting. The colours are so striking and great details of the feather. I never observe a peacock feather this close before.

wow! this is beautiful. i saw a peacock on the side of the road on my way to work yesterday. first time i've seen one in the wild.

Beautiful shot, i love these colors.

I just wanted to say thank you again for the tremendous response to this picture; I'm very happy that so many people have liked it.

Fantastic colour! The detail looks awesome and I really like the framing.

Really like the way that you used your depth here, and the composition is excellent.
Wonderful colors involved!