Who Invited Him!?

Beautiful image and, personally I like it better without the sparrow.

It definitely has more life in it with both birds.The crabapples are great.

Walt, since you shot this 6x7, you obviously already cropped top and/or bottom--but still have a lot of negative left. I would consider cropping exactly half of the right of the photo out and going back in the direction of a square format, preserving some of the color on the right but keeping both actors in the play.

 

To my eye this is a bit simpler and less complicated than the more elongated version that you posted, which takes my eye too far to the right with all that color.

Thank you Lannie. But my original thoughts were to have a mass of color (the crabapple tree) balance the mass of the birdhouse, both pivoting on the bluejay. That is why I cropped it into this semi-pano form; I cut out a lot from the top of the original 6x7 to accomplish this.

 

I appreciate your attachment, but I think it lacks much of the dynamics of my original submission. I considered something along the line of the attachment, but dismissed it as being too commonplace. Regards.

I can understand your logic, Walt. More cropping would throw out a lot of color. As a panorama, printed large, it would indeed be very worthy as it is. Panoramas to me are like murals. There is no single image to be evaluated. The eye can roam, as it does in nature, before we have abstracted from it by taking the photo out of it.

I like the original, the berries and both birds, as is. I suppose because a single bird might seem like so many other photos....when in reality bird feeders are "high traffic" areas.

I simply love it. You got beautiful pictures in your folder. I wish they were taken by me. Could you please look at my pics and give me some tips. Will appreciate that.

Very nice composition. I love the birds, I had fun with the title, and I like the seeds/fruits yellow-red in the light.

although the composition is good but one of the birds is too much near the left edge. I like the color scheme which is split complementary in this case.