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    Default Am. Oystercatcher in grass

    I took this in the late afternoon last month at Nickerson Beach. I instinctively went to remove the sand but decided I liked it.
    D300s with 600 VR. 1/800 f/7.1. 250 ISO.

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    Yep I sort of like the sand too as a post action look. If I were to try to eliminate something it would be the stray feather on the neck. Wonder wht a vertical would look like but a little tight at the top.
    Love the eye,head detail and color of the beak.

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    The bird looks well exposed but I think he could be brightened just a little. I don't mind the sand at all, I would rather the forground be clean in this one and I like the bg just like it is.

    Jack

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    Nice low angle and HA on this, Allan. BG works well, love the eye, bill, and nice job on blacks! I might be tempted to clean up sand clump on bill, but nicely done!

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    Nice with the framing veggies but I must admit that I like the background vegetation better than the foreground vegetation. If it were mine the big glob of sand on the nares would be gone in a millisecond. I would also eliminate the two whitish areas at the base of the lower mandible and perhaps make it a bit less yellow. My last concern is with the seeming lack of fine detail in the brownish-black feathers (that from someone with an admittedly poor eye for fine detail).

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