Hi Gus - Looking good - Love the green cactus against the blue sky and the nice sharp eye - Lovely fine feather detail and the clouds in the BG add interest.
Might get some comments on the HA - Regardless -- I like this a lot.
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Hi Gus, I agree with Lance on the head angle. I like this a lot too. Love the detail in the feathers. As for the HA a look back would have been better perhaps, but I don't mind this so much because the bird is facing completely away from you anyway. Although it is reality, I might have considered removing the two white specks on the back- at least of the image were going on a calendar or a card.
(PS got the DVD; haven't had a chance to look yet. Many thanks! Wish my dad was alive to see it!).
I like the angle and pose here because you still see so much of the face and the eye is so sharp and clear. Sure, it's not ideal...but it's still very nice. I also would clone the two white spots - I saw them almost immediately.
It always cracks me up that some people have cactus in their backyards. I guess that's what living in the Midwest your whole life does that to you. ;)
Lovely Gus, I like the fact that with this image you are essentially looking at 3 colours, the colours of the cactus, the sky and the bird.
I love your crop here, it works well, but would wish the bird was facing towards you rather than away. Mostly because the more I think about HA, and read about it here, the more I see the importance it plays in drawing the viewer into the image. I find with this head angled away it's like I'm just an observer, and are disconnected from the bird. (I hope I haven't anthropomorphised this too much).
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