a moment of tenderness
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Comment by tanguera:
The look on her face is priceless

a moment of tenderness
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Comment by nam:
Cute - they always are. Congratulations on the top ten.

a moment of tenderness
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Comment by Ozzie:
Ahhh, Australia!

I'm gonna get free
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Comment by EL-ROI:
Excellent capture and speaks well to the challenge. I am sure it was a moment you can't get back and a reshoot was not possible. However I would like to have seen the subject a little closer. One thing to help create the focal point besides having the action is to brighten that subject up a bit.

a moment of tenderness
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Comment by Skip:
One of my favorite type of newspaper assignments is to capture "wild art", which is defined as "Stand-Alone, Feature Shot, Enterprise art are found moments that are intended to be realistic slices of everyday life" (definition taken from this glossary). These are typically images that caption themselves, not needing a lot of words to get their point across. For this challenge, I'm scoring images as whether I'd like to see them on the front page of a paper as feel good wild art. If I don't think they would make the paper, I'm then asking myself, "does it make me feel good?" If it doesn't do much for me, well then, oh well...

This is a nice image. If anything, I would crop in much, much tighter, focusing in on the relationship between the birds and removing everything that doesn't contribute to their story.

arches
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Comment by shoot_the_runner:
thanks!

arches
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Comment by Tiny:
Congrats on the top ten,good work.

arches
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Comment by tanguera:
Terrific clarity. Congrats on the tt.

stealing the hat
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Comment by bspurgeon:
Ha!

arches
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Comment by JamesDowning:
Impressive composition! I like this a lot!