To Fly Away
by sfalice

Comment by tnun:
something cerebral about this, or essential, or inevitable.

To Fly Away
by sfalice

Comment by sidpixel:
Hello from the Critique Club

An interesting image that meets the challenge well

I agree with you, this feels like a free study its a very loose theme, your image fulfils the brief with the birds leaping into flight and freedom leaving us all grounded and envious, again I agree, wouldn't it be nice just once...

I like these frame filling shots of birds in various stages of flight they are always so dynamic and therefore appealing and your timing has caught them in the act of 'leaping' into flight. Initially, I thought the image had been over-sharpened but I am assuming the effect is due to a filter that you have used? If this is a seascape then the horizon needs levelling but not if it is a landscape, however, in view of its ambiguity I would have levelled it anyway.

Sorry you didn't get any comments I hope this makes up for it. Thanks for another interesting entry Alice

To Fly Away
by sfalice

Comment by sidpixel:
Hello from the Critique Club

An interesting image that meets the challenge well

I agree with you, this feels like a free study its a very loose theme, your image fulfils the brief with the birds leaping into flight and freedom leaving us all grounded and envious, again I agree, wouldn't it be nice just once...

I like these frame filling shots of birds in various stages of flight they are always so dynamic and therefore appealing and your timing has caught them in the act of 'leaping' into flight. Initially, I thought the image had been over-sharpened but I am assuming the effect is due to a filter that you have used? If this is a seascape then the horizon needs levelling but not if it is a landscape, however, in view of its ambiguity I would have levelled it anyway.

Sorry you didn't get any comments I hope this makes up for it. Thanks for another interesting entry Alice

Celebration!
by sfalice

Comment by sidpixel:
Hello from the critique club

An appealing image that meets the challenge well

You're right Alice, some of the very best abstracts come from water reflections and you have found an excellent one here, well done there is certainly plenty of colour and the bird is well abstracted. I must confess to be a sucker for reflections, I love the reed shapes and the birds head they are beautifully distorted. Perhaps the only thing I would alter is the composition to have more space in front rather than behind but perhaps this was unavoidable for you at the time?

It's disappointing for you that it wasn't better received but thanks for your entry Alice.

Wild Female Meadowlark
by sfalice

Comment by sidpixel:
Hello from the critique club

An appealing image that contributes well to the free study challenge

The vivid colouring and detail are the elements that give your image additional impact. You made very best use of the golden opportunity that presented itself to you by careful selection of the technical details, a choice of aperture to get sufficient depth of field to capture all of the bird, including its beak, whilst isolating it from the background and retaining sufficient soft focus detail. This is a very accomplished study that deserved a higher score and comments, I hope this makes up for it. Well done Alice.

Celebration!
by sfalice

Comment by tnun:
Picasso's Heron.

Celebration!
by sfalice

Comment by posthumous:
the water is angry. it's turning the birds into monsters. its magic is abstraction.

Celebration!
by sfalice

Comment by Kodak:
Great catch i gave an 8

Celebration!
by sfalice

Comment by GeorgesBogaert:
Something's wrong with the bird :)

Celebration!
by sfalice

Comment by onthecusp:
Definitely not my idea of abstract but best wishes in the challenge!