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    From my cold trip to The Bosque in early January.

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    Man,..I gota get to Bosque,..what a great moment with nature,..just lovely. The feather detail is great. The opportunity is the top and bottom edges. Consider smoothing the sticks and cloning a cleaner bottom edge and removing a small layer. I would crop the brown strip at the top too, but that's me - lets see what others say. Nice post, do have more from the trip?

    The exposure techs are solid too, great kit for flight.
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    Thanks, Jeff. I found the top too 'bland' when I cropped out the top shore. I see what you mean about the bottom. Although I like the habitat, perhaps evicting a few twigs from the bottom might improve things. I'll go back and try that.

    Yes, you MUST get to Bosque. I wouldn't recommend early January when I took this (it's too cold), but November 2011 was absolutely amazing.

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    Ian,

    Do Not let me talk you out of habitat,..you are the photographer and that is what you saw. It looks real good ether way, just offering suggestions my friend!!

    Yes, November - I will be there this year!

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    It looks like I will be there the week of Dec. 9. November wasn't available in our vacation schedule at work.

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    Lovely pose, great details, great light. I'm with Jeff in that I find the top strip a bit distracting, perhaps darken it a little more would help.

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    Thanks, Loi. Here is an edit without the top border (used Content Aware Fill in CS6 to give myself some real-estate on top). Thoughts?

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