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Comment by Lydia:
This is lovely.

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Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Winced when I saw the placing, esp as you usually do very well in challenges with images like this. But I am afraid that there is just too much clutter going on in the shot (esp that whited-out branch arcing over the heron) to make it a very good entry, especially as Wendy tends to shoot very clean. The comp is just ho-hum, you know that it takes a lot more than a percher to well here!!!

Sorry for being a bit harsh, but you're a strong girl and a strong photographer, I think you can take it :-)

Susan

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Comment by jim29028:
nice image with good focus and processing, not sure that the square crop helped this but I like it

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Comment by Abra:
Beautiful! I wonder if it would have been a bit more comfortable rotated 180 deg? I really do like the softness and tones.

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Comment by Ammie:
Rhythm indeed. Stunning effort

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Comment by clickodak:
Nice shooting I give 7

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Comment by Neat:
Congratulations Janine long time no see on the front page hope you get your Mojo back. As for the scores you never know where your photos going to end up, scores are all over the place lately, no consistency.

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Comment by digifotojo:
Beautiful Janine! Congratulations!

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Comment by snaffles:
*eyeroll* Oh great, a ribbon winner wants a critique...;-) Oops you didn't hear that, did you? hehe

Greetings from the Critique Club and you've already made my job an uphill battle, Janine! Lovely exposure, achingly simple composition, utter simplicity in choice of subject and how you shot it - love how there is more feather detail in the reflection than the feather itself.

Honestly can't find any real fault with this image. So rest on your laurels, or rather feather, while you can and enjoy :-)

Susan

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Comment by DCrest01:
Congratulations, Janine! I love this!