Thanks Jake for helping me with the crop and ditching B&W
This was an amazing episode. The size of the fish was enormous and the bird kept trying to swallow it and couldn't get it down. Finally he gave up and found a snake which was another amazing photo op.
[Jan. 5th, 2017 11:54:11 AM]
O noes! It looks like this shot is going to make it onto my home page. I have not been able to change an image on my page in two years and this is definitely not one I am proud of.
We were hiking in a park in the Florida Keys and I had my camera with me. It was something that was unusual and hard to ignore but not something I want to look at. It is hard for 'quirky' images to get a good score. It has to be a "blockbuster" entry, never art.
Just complaining about a high score for a change!
[Jan. 7th, 2017 10:40:48 AM]
* last day of voting and I need not worry since "Riot" came through with his magnifier and brought me back from a 6.8
to a 6.6. He is very astute and a
lifesaver. His 'average vote cast' is something to behold. Thanks Eugene!
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you have some really nasty artefacts from the clumsy selection mask you used to do the fake background blur - it's especially visible around the feathers near the bottom of the scene, the heron's legs, and the one fin of the fish being artificially blurred.
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