backyard garden Parrot Feather

I thought the detail in the individual branches of this parrot's

feather were really interesting. I tried a number of angles at first

because I usualy don't care for head-on shots, but after reviewing all

the images I made of this subject, I found that this one had a very

interesting feel. I liked the tonal values of the leaves against the

black background and was happy with the separation. I was concened at

first that the image would be flat due to the apparently uniform color

of the plant, but as you can see here, there is some tonal separation

in the image after all.

No adjustments were made to this image, other than cropping out the

thin black edges of the film that were recorded by the scanner. I

would be very interested in comments from anyone who does not like the

image as well as from those that do. Thanks for taking the time to

leave comments!

- Randy