Diversion

[Bonnie Block]

Yes, a diversion from my usual. Left the big guns at home on a recent trip to a wetland, knowing not much in the way of birds would be there. Had to work a bit to find some images on a very flat-colorless day. I used the Topaz BuzSim filter combined with Nik tonal contrast.
Canon7D
Tokina 12-24
1/60s f/5.0 at 24.0mm iso400

[Richard Lovison]

Bonnie,

I really like this... there is a great deal of depth created due to the lighting and your effects. I might wish for a bit more depth of field at the lower left corner or maybe crop the bottom a bit though that's only minor. Well done.

Richard

[denise ippolito]

Bonnie, This is appealing and the colors and effect look very nice. An interesting look. Nicely done.

[Ken Childs]

Hi Bonnie, there's a lot to like in this, maybe too much.
It looks like there are 2 different images to be had here....one with about 30% cropped off the top or one with about 25% cropped off the bottom. Not a bad situation to have, IMHO.

[Mark Fuge]

Nice image and application, Bonnie.

I would agree with Ken on the crop. But also a nice image as is.

[Steve Adkins]

Hi Bonnie, This has a wonderful quality and depth. The colors, subject and shading are fantastic! Perhaps this helps to make multiple crops possible.

[Brendan Dozier]

Real nice image and use of filter. Like the colors and texture. Agree with Ken, regarding cropping two seperate images from it.