Taken after a snowfall of 10-12 inches...There were a whole bunch of birds at the feeder and I had my girlfriend step in front of the window to make them fly off...luckily I got the show on my first try, but no dice after that.
Hope this one does well, although it was a last minute entry.
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I don't mind the soft focus. I love the background with the fringe of green at the top and the flakes of snow. What I would change, if this was my image, is the white halo around the bird. It can't be done under the basic editing rules, but I would use the clone tool to erase the halo.
the comments seem to alternate between loving and hating the soft focus on the subject, but thats alright. I learned that next time people would rather just stick to the tack-sharp images.
It's a nice catch of something that was clearly moving fast, but as an entry, it lacking some. Blurry, grainy and other than a neat catch of the bird in flight, not much interest. Sorry to be so harsh on it.
Wow, that must have be a hard shot to get. It is a little out of focus and the bird being in the middle of the frame does seem to take away from the photo.
Normally a shot of a single bird might not do it for me for this challenge, but the way this is presented most definitely meets the challenge. I love that the bird itself is not sharp - it's fluid and blurred and quite lovely. The motion can be felt. I love that the background is a background. I even like that the bird is centered. It speaks of transience, of beauty, of simple grace.
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