This little girl was feeding a bunch of gulls and ducks who were really assertive, to say the least. She periodically stopped feeding them long enough to whirl and jump, and catching her with the gull in a similar pose made for an appealing shot. It's not as pretty as some of the other shots I got (and I cut off the top of her head) but it makes me smile, and it tells a story, and I love shots that tell a story.
PP - converted from RAW, levels, white balance, dodged girl's hair and a little on gull, resized, sharpened.
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I don't know if this was by accident or not, but what great timing! I love the fact that they are going in different directions and completely unaware of each other!
I like the juxtaposition in this with the girl and the bird, nice candid. There's good clarity with the bird, the feathers look fantastic. DOF is perfect. I'm a sucker for square framing, too.
They'd found her those 5 years ago, lying in a clump of grass, dirty and abandoned, crying. Normally, it'd have been considered a meal, that small and helpless thing. It wouldn't have stood a chance.
Cartha and her brood, however, were not normal. They'd always been a bit of an outcast group among their kind. They preferred to feed on scraps instead of carrion, and for this they'd been forced from the community. So it was fortunate for this tiny babe, abandoned here for whatever reason, that it was Cartha's clan that happened upon her. Some stroke of fortune, or perhaps a gift from some higher power, they'd never know.
What they did know is that they tended to that child, feeding it, keeping it warm, caring for it, and it grew with them and became one with them. Now, these 5 years later, Cartha new it was time to set the child free, to be with its own kind and so she set out to teach it to fly and go off to search for her own.
I either need the entire girl (with her head) or none of her, to make this really a good one, in my opinion. I think the focus is wonderful on the bird. Nicely captured bird. (not voting yet)
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