One mature and four immature white ibis, Santa Fe River, High Springs Florida, N70, Sigma 400, sensia 100. Taste for abstraction is extremely subjective. Where does this image register on your abstraction meter? Too much? Too little? Not even in the ball park? (posting early as I'll be out of town for awhile

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), September 07, 1999

Answers

Just in case you were wondering, this is a pan, not photoshop filter.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), September 07, 1999.

I actually like the blur. The only thing that holds me back is that the reflect on the water is a bit cut off. Can you go back and ask the birds to do it again? If this were in the frame, I would crop out the hot spot coming through the canopy in the upper right of the photo. That would allow for more emphasis on the birds themselves.

-- Chris Gillis (cagillis@concentric.net), September 07, 1999.

Larry, I like the photo, but, if it were mine I would crop just behind the reflection behind the adult, cutting out the 4th minor, and then blow up the picture to full size. I cropped it that way on my monitor and it has a better balance and feel to me, because it does not have that lagging junior pulling my eye away from the group. What do you think? Pat

-- pat j. krentz (krentz@cci-29palms.com), September 07, 1999.

Wow, excellent. Some nature - the part which does not quietly stand for attention - is rather neglected by nature photographs, it's challenging, photos are rare. This is one of them, I'd say it's "National Geographic standard". Heading for NG, Larry?

-- Jana Mullerova (jana.mullerova@eurocontrol.be), September 08, 1999.

Larry,

By the sound of the responses, this sounds like a great shot! Unfortunately, I can't get the image to load. Could you e-mail me the URL?

Thanks!

-- Jim Erhardt (jimerhardt@hotmail.com), September 08, 1999.

I like the effect, but I think the birds are too small in the frame. If you could have filled the frame with the four birds on the left, I think it would be truly outstanding.

-- Rich Ruh (pathfinder@poboxes.com), September 09, 1999.