Contest amended

[allanrube]

Embarrassing or funny?

This will teach me from doing things differently. Whenever I have entered a composition the title of my work includes the name of the bird. However, this time I thought of a name "Up on a mountain" or whatever. Thought I was being cute. I posted the "winning image" but found out I posted the wrong image. This one of a least tern chick won.

Has this just happened to me?

[Tom Rambaut]

Nice image - HA, soft light, feather/fluff detail in the body, perched on top of the sand pile and nice BG. Question - why would the sand to the front left be in focus and that to the right be OOF? There seems to be something going on around the bird?

[Mital Patel]

Allan,

Cuteness of this chick is just makes it for me.

Btw i think you left something out when processing.

Appears the tip of beak just went off.
The birds all edge has got some masking left.
and yes i surprise with the dof on perched sand.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Alan, nice light, details, pose and surroundings. shooting angle is just right.

you forgot to add the techs.

[allanrube]

D300s 600 VR with 1,4 tc. 1/500 at f/6.3 at iso 500. Early morning light.

[Ron Sprunger]

Delightful. I'm not seeing any DOF issues -- I think the angle of slope on the left tends to confuse the eye as to what plane it lies in. Looks perfect to me. Great job.

[adrian dancy]

I agree with Ron...

[Robert Holguin]

Real nice shot. Excellent light, great pose, and sharp. I really line the sand dune that its standing on.
Well done.

[denise ippolito]

Allan, I love the pose with the "mountain" I think they are so cute at that stage. Nice light and big congratulations well deserved!