Doesn't have quite the same ring to it as "the lark in the morning", does it? Poor guy, saddled with such a name...
Just me and a Kori Bustard at about 7 AM at the National Zoo.
post-challenge:
Image is not cropped, and I framed the composition deliberately.
I knew I'd get hurt on the relatively "boring" center composition. But, as I said, I framed this deliberately, because part of what does it for me, for this image, is all that beautiful backlit grass arcing across the frame - all crop alternatives I tried just ruined that dynamic.
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The backlighting is lovely here, bustard or no :-) Poor guy, saddled with that name. A difficult cropping situation probably kept you from reaching a 6+ with this.
That bird is looking right at you, wondering whether you want him to move out of the way so that you can take a picture of the grass. Then he thought he would stay; it's his home, after all. You can take the picture around him. Wonderful.
Having read the comments (something I only do after I comment), I agree; it's not a centered composition, and I keep following the flow of the grass. Thanks for not cropping that out.
To me the composition is as much about the grass as it is the bird. If anything, I see it as a two-thirds/one-third arrangement. I would have been reluctant to crop and I'm a crop queen.
Ah, you got good stuff that day! I think it's a lovely shot, nicely sharp, with interesting textures and halo light around his head. I think the composition hurt the score, though. Dead center leaves my eye to wander around. I wonder how it'd look cropped in on the right?
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