where is waldo?

[stuart wanuck]

nikon d 700 iso 400 300 mm lens
ap 1/250 @ 6.7
wako environmental image

[Keith Carver]

Very painterly and a different kind of COMP, Stuart, I like it. The reflection really adds to it. It is quite busy but a beautiful tricolored hard at work in a busy environment. It seems fairly dark overall, but maybe you were limited by the white breast feathers. As for Waldo? ... I don't have a clue. ;o)

[Tony Whitehead]

I like this, Stuart. The reflections, ripples, vegetation on the water and bird all combine to make a very pleasing environmental image with some definite impressionistic qualities. I might be tempted to darken the top of the image slightly to reduce the brightness of the yellow/brown leaves.

[Brian Barcelos]

Stuart, Very busy but in a good way. Lovely colors and I like the floating vegetation. I was going to suggest a slight crop off the right side to balance the heron with the bigger clump of veggies but the realized it would have dissected the ripple around the bird. Congrats.

Brian

[Ramon M. Casares]

WOW.. loved it!
Great scene. Great light, wonderfull ambient. Lovely species, pose, copm ,crop and colors. Big, huge congratulaitons!

[Connie Mier]

I really enjoy these kinds of scenes, lovely setting and well done with exposing the bird.

[sree.kumar.h]

Fantastic image Stuart. Like your composition. Love the way the reflections and the small weeds add to image. Very nice visualization.