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The lighting on this cactus flower brings out immense amounts of

detail. The ants are an extra bonus feature :-)

All I have to add is: astounding photo, Miguel. Don't let all the PS critique get you down - the wing-on view of the attacking eagle is a bit difficult for the eye to digest, and at X kph, even 1/500s isn't good enough to freeze that motion.

I find Shawn's critiques to be unfounded; compositionally, the image shows proper balance and placement, its main subject shows emotion and power and is the subject of the camera's focus, and the secondary object (the attacking eagle) is by no means so out of focus that it's only a claw attached to a blur. The lighting is magnificent.

Submit this to a contest and get yourself some (more) recognition and cash for this amazing photo.

An edge of fog picture taken at Rocky Mountain N.P. No filters, just

the natural view...

This is my first prize-winning effort on pro slide film, having won

the (albeit somewhat parochial) Gilpin County Fair art show.

It's amazing what happens when a bit of snow falls overnight in the

desert. When the sun strikes, the snow sublimes into a nice ground

fog. Aligning the sun behind a hoodoo produced a striking halo effect.