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    Jon:

    Love the interaction, the display of the ruff on the neck/cheek area on the right bird, the closeness but still with good separation of neck and heads.

    Don't feel bad about the 'test shots'. With loons, I am constantly doing test shots as they move about to be sure I have the right exposure when something special happens.

    For personal taste, I might crop a sliver off the top, even though the right birds head is pointing up.

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    Jonathan, it's a great moment in nature with the birds well exposed and with nice feather detail and bill placement. You may want to try to reduce the noise a bit at the upper left side of the image. You can try just noise reduction or open the shadows a bit and then reduce noise. It's a nice image!

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    Love interaction and behavior here. I would either crop some off of the top here or try something more squarish which I don't normally like, but I Like it here.
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    Great action shot, Jon. Spring must be there already.

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    Jonathan crop is ok by me, maybe a tad off the top, your effort as paid off getting you a great catch of the action.

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    Cool interaction, nice light and good details on both birds.

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    I like the sharpness, exposure, details and interaction. I would crop a little off the top as well. Very well done Jonathan!

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    Love this image Jonathan, it says so much to me, well done

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    You capture a nice moment well here Jon. No complaints here but agree a change to the crop may make it even better. I like Marina's idea of a square crop.

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    Thanks very much for the feedback everyone, as I look at the image a scroll the page I can see the effect of cropping a little off the top and I agree it looks better. I will also check out a square crop Marina.

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    Beautiful interaction, nice image.
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    nice capture,like as is,well done.

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    Very nice image Jonathan. Love the interaction, colours and all the details.

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    Great scene and setting you have here.

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