American Kestrel against Blue Sky (version 2)

[Jon Rista]

This is a repost of my first submission here. I've attempted to apply the improvements recommended by Art, Gail, and Arash: Reduced the size of the bird in the frame, dodged the tail, cloned out the reflection in the eye, and tried to dodge out some of the funky shadows caused by out of scene branches:

[Nelson Mena Alfaro]

beatifull bird

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Better than the original :) Nice job on the repost. I only wish you could have gotten a better angle on him, but I know that's not always possible. Just something to strive for