Taken at the fish pier in Chatham in the late afternoon. The sun was finally beginning to break through after a very foggy day.
In the lower part of the image which I cropped off there were even more birds plus 5 or 6 large seals competing for the bits of fish that ended up overboard as the day's catch was unloaded from the boat on the left.
[Jul. 25th, 2017 08:12:07 PM]
Thanks for the comments and votes. I had the same feelings that several commenters expressed. It is a very "busy" picture, something I would usually try and avoid, but I felt that in this instance it worked for the challenge topic.
At it's highest the score was over 6.8 and it was above 6.77 for most of the last 24 hours so it was within a hair's breadth of being the image to finally bump my Pareidolia entry down one position, something I would dearly like.
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I'm amazed that anyone would say it's too busy -- it's the busy that makes this absolutely fascinating. Not sure about the noise -- but I've been getting hypersensitive about noise because of my 7D. But that seems a bit too distracting. But it's a marvelous find and a marvelous catch. Congrats on the HM!
Thanks for the comment Wendy. The "noise" is actually the moisture in the atmosphere! It was still very foggy, having been extremely foggy all day, and it was finally starting to lift. That may be less obvious perhaps as I lightened the foreground a bit.
I'm amazed that anyone would say it's too busy -- it's the busy that makes this absolutely fascinating. Not sure about the noise -- but I've been getting hypersensitive about noise because of my 7D. But that seems a bit too distracting. But it's a marvelous find and a marvelous catch. Congrats on the HM!
I find this a very compelling image. There's a lot going on, but the eye is always drawn back to the man in the boat; the seagulls frame him perfectly; the triangular lead-in of the boats directs the viewer very well. I feel that everything in the picture is coming at me and, like the boat driver, I am heading against the tide, so to speak.
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