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    A young Whooper Swan and friend approach their Winter home here in the UK

    Taken as they sped past the hide using my 100-400 and 1.4 TC
    I thought it looked remieniscent of those along side hang glider shots which are so wonderful to see on TV

    Another buddy was removed from behind the upper bird
    Processed in DPP and PS5 with NR by Topaz

    Canon 7D 1/640 f 5.6 ISO 800

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    Did you crop the bird on left's lower wingtips intentionally, or is this what is in the raw file?
    I'm not a fan of the crop you've chosen. Cropping the bird on left is perhaps ok, but not also on the wingtips. Just IMHO.
    Did you consider adding a little to the bottom - content aware fill would help, followed by wingtip repair complicated by motion blur....a lot of work. I'd get rid of the water -- fill it with reeds first. The water on Lower left adds nothing to the image but its a secondary bright spot.

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    Hi Don

    Only cropped from top from raw; I will try CA on bottom , if I get lucky it will do wing tip as well.
    can take out water LL noot sure on that as I feel its part of the scenary type; might try burning it down a little as well

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    Good points by Don, and I would also have preferred the swans flying parallel to you rather than angled away. I find the white spots at right edge a bit distracting too. I do agree it looks like those along-side hand glider footage we see on TV, so it does have merit in that sense

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