Pattern in Flight

Hi Verna, nice bird and landscape series

Is a really seagull formation flight.

I figure you live near the Beach hey ;-)

 

You've got quite a couple of realy good pictures online. Keep it up. I like them!

 

Martin

Love your eye for the patterns

When I saw this in thumbnail form, on the same page as some Air Force photos taken in Afghanistan, I thought I was seeing a load of bombs falling from a B-52. It's a familiar image to those of us who grew up watching news footage from Vietnam and to find that it's really just birds in flight is very sobering.

This is excellent! Very nice

Your best posting to date IMO.

My Gosh,Verna...this is genius in it's simplicity and execution. I've just been sitting here and looking at it,and admiring. What an incredible feeling it must have been to focus in on this shot.You had to have known it was going to be something very special!

Wow . . . inspirational and beautiful. I like it a lot.

IMO the pattern of the flock fights the blue sky for the center of focus. A great wildlife shot has the subjects mesh in harmony with there surroundings.

This shot does not have this quality.

 

See http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=875530

 

for an example.

This photo is as much a part of nature as the one you cited. I don;t see how you can even compare the two, but that is what IMO is all about.

 

Look at this again... it is majestic. I see the glory of the boundless sky contrasted by the insignificance of a flock of birds in flight. Deeply moving... an image captured that sends chills up and down my spine. This image sends hope... the one that our critic poses is another lovely National Geo image. Nice bird, lovely plumage.

Very well done you were certainly at the right place at the right time. Keep up the good work. Best picture I've seen for a long time.

This really is a great pattern shot. Your timing is right on here. Very sharp and framed so well. Good one Verna.

i particularly like the way in which the birds at the lead of the formation were captured in the opening of the clouds in the lower left. This is truly a beautiful image of birds in flight.