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This was taken @ world bird sanctuary in Valley Park Missouri

Crystal clear, nice capture.

Incredibly sharp. I'm assuming this is a croped portion of a larger composition? If so, I think the only thing that could have made this one better would have been to remove the lower third of this crop and place the eye closer to the left side of the frame to leave more open space in between the beak and the right side of the frame. That would have given the composition a rectangle with the long side on the horizontal and a feeling of the bird looking at something, whereas right now I get a sense I'm supposed to pay more attention to the head behind the eye, the neck and top of the breast. If you can, please shoot me an email and let me know where this bird place is as I live in O'Fallon near St. Louis, I have a 400mm for my Canon 10D and would love to shoot a bird like this!

Nice image. Good texture.

Yes, very good picture!!! Best regard.

Thanks to all who commented, you all make photography that much better.

I will have to say that sharpness and expression of the bird is what really make this image stunning. Cheers! Raphael

Very...very good! regards

I'm just glad that you all like this one, I had it on a couple of other sites but took it off because of people saying it lacked detail and telling me it was crappy. Oh well.

Paul; This shot is evident of your talent & the great strides you have made in such a short time. Congratulations on a great raptor capture!~

While attempting to rate this picture 7/6, PN warned me that I could not do so as you have rated one of mine, recently. Funny, I wasn't even aware of that as I no longer check "my numbers". Will attempt to re-do, another day... ~

Thats ok Char I like comments more than ratings, I hope you have been well, it has been awhile since I've heard from you.

wonderful wonderful photo, tremendous detail and colour