I'm still very hesitant about entering a non-extended editing wildlife photo in this type of free study.
I often wonder if people will require that there be something extended about the photo in this type of challenge?
I also really don't want to do extended editing on wildlife photos, because then people would begin to doubt whether any of them are real.
But regardless of all of that -- I'm so excited about this shot. I picked something else for the regular free study, and kept hoping that it would fit a regular challenge.
It didn't.
So I had to put it here. I just loved it so much!!
It wasn't much of a battle, by the way. The yellow crownded night heron didn't have any problem eating this guy.
I think it'w my first blue ribbon without any comments during voting!
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Congrats Wendy, awesome capture! (I did not want to leave you completely commentless :)). By the way, my photo dropped from 7.4 to below 7 in the last day. Did something similar also happen to you, I wonder?