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    Martha Weaver
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    Default Brown Pelican riding the waves

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    I finally got this ready to post, I think.
    Thursday my husband and I went to Galveston. The wind was high (about 25 mph) and the waves were the largest I'd ever seen them without a storm brewing.
    As I walked out on a jetty I watched a pelican who had the art of riding waves down to a science! He/she would ride over the wave, and catch a seafood dinner on the downside, paddle along to catch the next wave, etc.
    As the waves built up larger and began to crest where Mr. B Pelican was fishing he'd spread his wings and skim the top of the foaming water. It was a thrilling sight to behold.
    I was using my Canon 7d and the EF 100-400 is lens.
    iso 200; f10, shutter at 1250/sec.
    It was a bright-cloudy day about 1 pm.

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    Hi Martha, Good try in an interesting setting. Seeing the bird's face would have helped but the big problem is with the processing, (or most likely with the over-processing....) The image quality looks poor, the pelican unsharp, and the whole thing as if you were trying for some sort of grunge-look HDR effect....

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    Default it does look intense here!

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    When printed out, it did not appear too over-worked, but I can definitely see what you're saying as I look at it here!
    I have gone back to the raw file and re-done it with much less work.

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