I was looking through some of my images from my summer holidays in Cape Town last December, and came across this. This a fair crop, as these guys arent that large, and they were flying on the other side of the lagoon. I thought of presenting it this way, and leave the foliage at the bottom of the image.
Good choice on the crop. Agree about the foliage. Image quality is suffering a bit from the crop. I would have preferred the rear birds wings to be all the way up, but they don't always cooperate.
I like the crop idea and inclusion of the vegetation and agree that it would be stronger if the wings of the bird on the left were all the way up or down.