Display Post Image and Caption

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<?php

/**
 * Display Post Image and Caption
 *
 * @link http://www.billerickson.net/wordpress-featured-image-captions/
 * @author Bill Erickson
 *
 */
function be_display_image_and_caption() {
	echo '<div class="featured-image">';
	the_post_thumbnail();
	echo '<span class="caption">' . get_post( get_post_thumbnail_id() )->post_excerpt . '</span>';
	echo '</div>';
}

Thanks for this snippet of code. It solved my issue on needing to display a copyright notice on a featured image.

I substituted line 12 for this:
echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $thumbnail->ID, 'feature-wide' );
so I could choose the format size for the image to display above a single post.