Looks a little flat on my monitor. I would bump the saturation a bit, as Maxis suggested. Sharpening and NR would also help here. The bird is relatively centered in the frame; I too would give it more room on the left. Thanks for posting!
Hi Rick, you have a beautiful setting here. I have not seen too many egret images perched like this. The details and the exposure looks great. I do see some noise in the background. A bit of saturation and sharpness would have been good.
Lovely setting and colourscheme.....while the exposure seems good you might want to play around in curves a bit to make it stand out more. Composition suggestions were already made and I fully agree with them.
I do not mind the composition at all, in fact, I rather like that you have included the frond on our right. A small curves adjustment would help as Jasper suggested. My wish is that the whitish vertical blob in the BKGR to our left of the bird were not there.
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