Redwinged Blackbirds at Cheyenne Bottoms

[Anita Rakestraw]

Cropped to a pano type dimension on this one, altho I have others that are full frame. Wasn't sure which amount of blur looked best; this had the least blur and I think I prefer it.

1DMk III
100-400mm IS @ 300
ISO 400 f/13, ss 1/22
Nov. 5, 2009 @ 7:30 p.m.

[Gail Spitler]

Very evocative image - I can almost hear the wingbeats. I like the pano crop. The amount of blur seems right to me. I wonder about the 4 different color layers in the bg - the birds seem less visible against the blue and what seems like islands or weed beds stretching across the blue. I wonder what happens if you were to lighten the blue?
Interesting and creative image.
Cheers
Gail

[Caspar Davis]

I like the varied background, especially the sky, but Gail has piqued my curiosity about what lighter blue might look like.

Caspar

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Love the pano crop Anita. All of the frame is being populated by the Redwinged. Great soft tones also.

[Alfred Forns]

Love this image Anita !! All comes together for me, you got color, good composition and such a feel !!! About all I could wish for is a clean lower edge .... and wishing it was mine !!! Big Time Congrats !!!

[Gus Cobos]

Congratulations on this beauty Anita...I love it as is, no more, no less...:D:cool:

[Lance Peters]

Just gorgeous Anita - see you have taken up the IOTW challenge :) Going to a tough decision for this week.
Blur looks good and I like the 3 colour BG.
Fine image :)

[Anita Rakestraw]

Thank you all for the informative & kind comments; glad you like the image. Gail and Casper, I tried lightening the blue area and feel it works well - good suggestion!