This is a black crow against a pale moon in the daytime/clear blue sky. Not much more than gradient map and inversion to get effect - and the crow had little or no detail to start with, being backlit and a little motion blurred.
Totally legal, summoned for validation, not validated.
1/8/14: We are happy to inform you that your submission to the Free Study 2013-12 challenge ("flight and fancy") has been validated.
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