This image was captured along the banks of the Delaware River near Lambertville, NJ in May '08 when many of the local waterfowl were nesting. This group of Snow Geese included a gray-brown mother-to-be and two white companions. All three were hissing at me loudly whenever I tried to move in closer. The brown goose was sitting on eggs, I'm not sure about the other two.
Full image of the three "nesters" below.
Post-challenge:
This was a last minute entry, the original happened to be stored on a disk along with a bunch of real estate photos. I rarely, if ever, keep my original DPC images and most of my better photos have already been entered in challenges and would not be eligible. I wasn't aware of the Best of 2008 nor the Best of 2007 and therefore wasn't prepared like many of my colleagues obviously were. Ok, so I got hammered. You win some you lose some.
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Wow, either my eyes need a "tune up" or some people's monitors need one! ;)
I don't see "the grain" that commenters are talking about and more than anything, they've bypassed a TREMENDOUS photo in lieu of this alleged "grain"????
I love the color, composition, crop and the abstractness of this shot, Jo! Really wonderfully done! Don't let the voters in here take you down. This is a tremendous shot and one that you should be very, very proud of!
(((((HUGS)))))
DPC is going crazy! ;)
ETA: BTW...I find it ironic that out of that entire shot, the only criticism given was this "grain" or "pixelization"??? Since I can't see it....I'm wondering just how "distracting" (hate that term as it's used constantly) it really was??? Therefore, the big question...were they actually seeing the photograph and looking at it....or, were they bypassing it and looking only for flaws???
Seems to me it was the latter! Such a shame to miss an entire wonderful photograph!
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