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A fine composition with the bird and reflection well placed in the frame.  Your details don't tell much about how you got this image to screen. Puzzling, the details that are there tell us this is an original digital file but there is a horizontal line through the bird as though this was a scanned negative or print.  And my bet is that you burned in the feathers, a tad too strongly I feel.  This one definitely appears to have been manipulated.  Care to elaborate?  Best, LM.

this is a scanned file, i believe from kodachrome. looks like the film did get a little scratch, not sure if its from the camera or the processing. i bumped the contrast up a touch (not excessive, maybe 8%) to get the water black - so i lost the details in the feathers. i burned them, but, i agree, probably too much. in general i think i just over exposed the image. i cant find the original file - must be on my desktop back home. i;'ll post the original next week, if i remember to.