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    Lance Peters
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    Dont think there was anything up to standard with the pose you wanted Artie - had to make do with ths one.

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    Handheld in the sand.

    Sharpened, Cropped (Substanial) and a little vignetting added in the corners, reds destaurated.

    Comments welcome and appreciated :)

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    Beautiful, Lance. Really leaps off the screen. Lovely and sharp and detail holding up well for a substantial crop. Red of eye ring and beak really makes a good focal point and the head angle is great. I might lighten the small dark OOF areas. Well done.
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    Love the pose. Though the bird is angled slightly away from you, you waited for the perfect head angle. I just love this species. The blacks look a bit blocked and the image a bit too contrasty. The ground is the only place to be for shorebirds.
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    I agree with Artie about the blacks. I like the simple composition a lot and the soft colored and OOF BG helps a loto to made the B/W bird to pop in the composition. Perfect eye contact and low angle. Well done

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    Great angle and pose and great suggestions by Artie.

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    Beautiful 'simple' shorebird image with low angle and shallow depth of field giving way out of focus BG. Great alert position and angle on bird.
    Is this not the Black-fronted Plover, Charadrius melanops?

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    You are correct, Melvin. I think this is an example of name drift - the lastest edition of Simpson and Day indicates it as Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis (Charadrius) melanops
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    Great details for the crop whatever percentage of the original remains. Lovely separation of subject from background.

    Ah, I get sick of seeing these (kidding only), they are everywhere (trying to make Artie a bit jealous, that's all).

    Excellent composition and head turn as already noted. :)

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