
Originally Posted by
John Storjohann
Artie, it's a beautiful image...deep, saturated colors...the blur is very effective in heightening the sense of movement and speed while still maintaining an almost serene gracefulness to the flight of the skimmers...and I love the fact that so many of their bills have maintained their sharp outline in the silhouettes; you can still recognize the silhouettes as skimmers. For me (and I'm just thinking out loud here!), I don't know that the darker shadows along the bottom of the image (waves breaking along the shoreline?) add to this particular composition...I'd be tempted to crop those and possible add a bit of canvas to the left (not too much) and to the right (a little more than on the left), creating almost a panoramic view...and giving the skimmers a bit more space to fly into. Either way, it's a picture that draws my eye to it time and again...well done!