Nice composition and colour. I like that you've captured some people in the image... gives is some perspective and some story.
Now... please bear with me... I'm revisiting a little comment experiment I conducted in the 2009-03 Free Study... something like K10DGuy's comments, but with a twist... the twist being, the story will move from one photo to another within the challenge... also, I don't select just a few photos I start at the first and end on the last as determined by DPC random order assigned to me, with a single sentence for each photo... should be interesting... and you're photo is #12 in the series
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The age of man was about to come to an end, and animals would rule the world again.
Nice exposure. You may have gotten a better image if you were more to the right along the pond so that the shrubbery in the lower left wasn't so prominent. As it is, it's a nice shot but it could have been much better.