Great Egret Flight

SonyA700~Sony70-400G@330mm~ISO1250~F6.3~1/1250 sec~manual exposure~10-12-2009~Brays Bayou, Houston, Texas~CS4/Redfield Fractalius.
Fractalius used for background.
comments and critique welcomed. regards~Bill

Bill, I like the fractilius in the BG it looks awesome. The bird needs a bit more room to fly into IMO.

Nice image and application, Bill.

I would suggest adding some canvas on both ends. But,

Your image ... Your vision.

I like what fractalius did to the background! And the egret is fantastic - sharp from wingtip to wingtip and perfectly exposed.

I love the bg all by itself......would be awesome with the right silhouette.
Great to see you departing some from the Topaz Clean(but your "clean" technique is soooooper)

Thanks guys and gals! Dave: I don't plan on departing from the usual. I'm still perfecting it. Although fractalius does have a potential for interesting backgrounds, as far as fitting into my workflow for avian images, which concentrates on texture enhancement, I don't see any radical new direction. I have created a number of abstact images with fractalius that are quite fascinating, yet this isn't a forum for such works. I could put them on my personal website though. Nonetheless I appreciate you turning me on to it! regards~Bill

Bill, I would be very interested in seeing some of your abstracts and so would others. I would encourage you to post them.

Thanks Denise. The problem I saw was that, although you might not be able to tell in the final image, the base images are not necessarily nature based. I thought I read that in the guidelines; they needed to be nature based. regards~Bill