Cranes in Spain (Grus grus)

[Hugo Estévez]

This image was taken in Gallocanta Lagoon, a Crane´s must stop in migration periods. To see more: http://hugoestevez.blogspot.com/ . thanks for looking

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[Daniel Cadieux]

Beautiful sky colour, and the flock is nicely silhouetted. A few of the larger merges are unfortunate, but that's what you get with birds that flock randomly. I would, however, eliminate some of the partial individuals cut out of the frame...especially the very front headless one, the three lower ones, and the clump of 5 at top. This would not reduce the effect of the scene, but give you a "cleaner" finish comp-wise. Well done!

[Randy Stout]

Hugo:

Good input from Daniel. I like the slight climbing angle, background colors. Agree about cleaning up the cut off birds on the edges of the frame.

Cheers

Randy