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    Shot this the other day at the treatment plant, starting to feel like it's my summer home. All C&C welcome.

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    Lyle, you have made this species shine!
    Cool grass perch, wish the blade of grass was not in the BG right behind, but pretty minor.
    If you have the space, I think the bird would look nice moved to the right.
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    Agree with moving the subject a bit to the right.
    the dark green OOF vegetation is a distraction.

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    Lovely pose and light on this one. I like your perch and the green BG. I don't find the dark green a big distraction. I would definitely move this bird to the right (out of the center) or go vertical. I am wondering whether you did a lot of NR on your bird b/c I am seeing a lack of details in your feathers. They are looking a bit smooth to my eyes.
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    Great shot.
    Very nice pose, I really like the perch, great background, and nice soft light.
    I agree a tad to centered.
    Well done.

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    Lyle:

    Good comments from above. I like the pose, grip on veg, angle in frame.

    Do think the comp can be tweaked as mentioned above.

    The bg does look a bit peculiar. Certainly possible as shot, but I have seen that look when I have overdone the post processing trying to reduce the impact of the bg on the bird. I have seen this esp. in Nik Color Efex pro when I try to reduce the contrast of the bg.

    Can you share your post processing on this one?

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    Beautiful little bird and a nice scene you have here. I love the colors and the pose on this one. I agree with the others.
    This is one of those funny shots that you can look at a few times and sometimes it looks sharp and sometimes it looks a little off.
    I like the composition also. Nice job getting this beautiful little species

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    The pano look works remarkably well here, I only wish you had pointed your lens more to the left (or cropped as such). The light coming from your left has given you a neat effect.

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    I love the details on this one, the composition works nice for me
    nice colours and great greens all around making it nice on the eye.

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