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I was on a footbridge over a stream, shooting down, when these two birds flew out from

under the bridge. I snapped and prayed they & their reflections would be OK, since it was

pretty dark and my shutter speed wasn't very fast. Slightly cropped, not manipulated.

Very imaginative and very well taken. IMHO it lacks a bit of colour though. Had the sky been bluer, it would have looked much nicer.

During the gray times in winter, I feel the same, myself. ;-)

Weird illusion to this one - I thought the rock was falling off the cliff and was amazed at your sense of timing!

I did have some trepidation on posting this. Since there's no horizon, only water (due to downward angle), it's not easy to see what's real (happens to me lots) and what's reflection. Example: it's hard not to see four birds, when only two were there. I hadn't seen the "cliff" until I read your comment, and now I'm disoriented myself; think I'll lie down 'till it passes.

Makes it more interesting, Don, when you have to stare awhile.

Don, I like the that I'm not sure where the reflections begin and end. Diid it fall in your lap or did you have to work ofr the compostion? 6/6

As explained above, the birds were an OMG-push-the-button surprise, and I was concerned about motion blur, since I'd stopped down for increased DOF, and shutter speed was slow. The rest of it was planned. I'm not usually up before sunrise with leisure to shoot; they insist on scheduling it so early! So I was trying to find shots for a whole roll down by the river, and this and Visual Echo are the two I liked best (makes it a pretty good roll, for me, especially since Galaxie 500 was the finishing shot).

Peacful image ...!

The thing I liked most was the sound those birds made as they flew under you. Nothing beats the wind in wings!

Interesting composition Don