Hi Tammster! You needed a small sword or dagger for him to check out while you were shooting this, to connect it to the challenge a little better.
Nice looking bird, and that's a good pose. The wrinkles in his face make it look like this was processed a little "hard", but they do look that way from some angles ,esp with flash.
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Great and wonderful details and fabulous color on this pet portrait of this parrot. It is far above average in the technicals - color, details, and clarity. However, it needed that extra boost IN THE picture itself to have a strong connection to the pirate challenge. The connection you make to pirates is in the title and I am one who fully believes that a stronger composition would be "show, don't tell". One possibility would be showing the bird on a persons shoulder with a treat being held out to the bird with a hook 'hand; would have shown a stronger connection to pirates. The title should complement not carry the shot. As I stated earlier, this is a great animal portrait and would score well in a challenge so themed. Unfortunately, I cannot give this full marks for it fails to show a strong connection to the theme...but I will still rate it slighty above average.
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