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Hi.

This is a pictures of two Ruddy Turnstones. Taken this spring on

Delaware Bay during the horseshoe crab migration.

Hi.

Do the out-of-focus front petals draw the eye into the composition,

or distract (or neither)?

I have a similar shot here

http://www.smisra.net/DetailsGallery/(Oxeye_Daisy)(060504-7792).htm

Sorry the link to the alternative composition is here:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2361921&size=lg

Hi.

I would like to know how the composition of this image compares to

the one in the link below:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2361920

Normally, I would prefer the tighter composition given in the link.

However, in this case I feel that the tighter composition (in the

link) takes the emphasis attention away from the bird and his song,

and puts it on the perch. What's your opinion?

Hi.

Note that one wing tip was cutoff off. Does this hurt composition?

Hi.

This was my only acceptable photo after an otherwise unproductive

day at bombay hook national wildlife refuge. Note the sun in the

upper-right corner. Critical comments are welcomed.

it's an interesting pose, but he wasn't meditating at the time.

Hi.

A roadside fruit stand in east India. This was taken in the middle

of the day (~12pm) but luckily, the stand was in open shade.

Critiques are appeciated.

Hi. Thanks for the comments. No, I only made three shots of this scene, and this was my favorite of the three. Chilika lake is in east-India, and is known for its wintering bird population. My primary interest was bird photography, and I only took these pictures of the "people and culture" of the lake as an afterthrought. In hindsight, that was a bad case of tunnel vision of my part; I missed many good photo opportunities as a result.

A portrait of fisherman working on Chilika Lake - the largest

saltwater lake in Asia.

Taking along a canal in Maryland (USA), the morning after a snow

storm.

Hi.

Thanks for the comments. Well, I replaced the small version of this pic with a larger version of the same picture. The background is natural. I believe that it is a grassy hill in the distance.

Hi Bryan.

Those two spots are "dust spots." They are a consequence of using a digital SLR with a dirty sensor. I could have masked the first spot easily in photoshop. The second one may have been trickier to clone out.

Hi James,

They are goslings.