Dawn, this is such an amazing photo! It looks like you had a very slow shutter speed to get that dreamy water and sand -- yet the birds are so amazingly crisp and sharp! I'm in awe! Congratulations!!!
I hope you have been doing great!! :)
Oh, and P.S.: I definitely agree with Citymars and not Teafran about the negative space thing. That's what makes this so striking is the minimalist effect of those birds in that sea of soft dreamy bokeh!
This would be much better with the top third of the image cropped off. Nicely detailed.
Hmmm, top 8th, maybe. :-)
I think without the big empty space this would be much less effective. It was the soft pearl-gray background that really drew me in. Nice symmetry in the birds as well.