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Challenge: All is Calm (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M1
Lens: Olympus 150mm f/2.0 Zuiko Digital
Location: Anahuac, Texas, USA
Date: Dec 30, 2015
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/1000
Galleries: Nature, Birds
Date Uploaded: Dec 31, 2015

 An Osprey (Pandion Haliaetus) watches me while perched from a sign in Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Texas, USA.

Statistics
Place: 38 out of 63
Avg (all users): 5.5484
Avg (commenters): 0.0000
Avg (participants): 5.2800
Avg (non-participants): 5.7297
Views since voting: 443
Views during voting: 121
Votes: 62
Comments: 2
Favorites: 0

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 01/10/2016 10:04:50 AM
Lydia Thanks Lydia,

Thank you, wildlife is my favorite subject to photograph and I am glad that it shows. Did not have much choice in the blown out sky...........it was super cloudy and overcast with the occasional sprinkle coming down, the photo shows the exact color of the sky that day. I know that in a lot of ways the photo does not show calm, unless you think from the birds perspective. You can see how anyone prey looking at this bird would feel the opposite of calm and even people looking at this photo can an intense feeling (result of anthropomorphism). As I sat a few feet from him taking the photographs I could not help but sense how calm this bird was with what is probably his greatest threat so close. Even when he would look at me because of the sound of my shutter he was calm, even tho occasionally he would look at me when the shutter went off.

Ronnie
 01/08/2016 09:04:47 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club, Ronnie!

How interesting that just today, I was enjoing through your portfolio and then... I've been assigned one of your images to critique. Ha!

I love your wildlife images.

In this image, I really enjoy the blown sky... as if he were in front of a white posterboard to highlight his features. I enjoy the wonderful focus right where it should be... right on his eyes.

I like the detail you've captured in his feathers.

Such a good job on all of these.

I think that the intense stare of his eyes... a raptor... keen eyesight watching and waiting for prey... isn't the perfect fit for a "Calm" image. The tension we feel seeing his alert gaze is probably what lowered your score on this moving image.

So... my "diagnosis" is that this is a wonderful image... but not in this particular challenge.

I can't wait to see your next entry, Ronnie.

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