Nice placing of the Heron in the shot - but the huge lump of wood is just too distracting for me.
Unfortunately the eye naturally gets drawn to brighter areas of an image and you clearly want people looking at the bird and not the wood. One answer would have been to spot edit it and tone it down, so it is still there - just darker.
I am so used to using Basic editing for most all my entries I didn't even think of selectively darkening the wood, though I made a quick attempt at it when I read your comment (see below). I did consider entering the unadjusted cropped version, but I decided it was important to include the water.
Nice placing of the Heron in the shot - but the huge lump of wood is just too distracting for me.
Unfortunately the eye naturally gets drawn to brighter areas of an image and you clearly want people looking at the bird and not the wood. One answer would have been to spot edit it and tone it down, so it is still there - just darker.
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