Last light

[Ondrej Prosicky]

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Magellanic penguin, Ondřej Prosický | NaturePhoto.cz, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f/4 L IS USM, f/6.3, @1/60 s, ISO: 200, -1 1/3 EV, Flash: No, January 22, 2009 - 20:45, The Neck, Saunders Island (Falkland Island),

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[Doug Oglesby]

I find the light wonderful and the pose of the two penguins is just adorable but there's something about the shoreline cutting through the bodies that I find distracting, along with the foreground mound. Do you have a version where they continued walking and reached the mound a few feet in front of them? It would probably create better separation with the land. At least in my eyes...I like the shot though and I'd welcome it in my collection.

[Beth Goffe]

This is so beautiful. The light is beautiful and mood so serene, it makes me think these two are just marching off together with each other. The whole thing is lovely.

[Nate Chappell]

A beautiful and interesting image Ondrej, the backlighting and sunset are wonderful. I like it as posted but also think it would be great with the scene rotated to a level presentation.

[Sid Garige]

One more vote for Horizon correction.

[Mike Lentz]

A vote for leaving it as is! This is wonderful! No nits!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I really like the mood, like and poses. I'm undecided whether to straighten the horizon or not. Keep them coming!

[adrian dancy]

I can see why folk want a level horizon but for me, no ...it's great as it is and the naurally sloping horizon, for me, lends to part of the uniqueness of this image. In any event the birds probably would not look balanced (?)The only thing I would do, is remove the little circular highlight which is below the left bird's right foot and the grass stalk from the top side of the left wing. Very well done.

Adrian