john_h.1

Did you use a camera in any way to make this image?

"too bland to make an impact"

Depending on whose imagery is involved perhaps?

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10254592

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3874799

"7"

Interesting activity instead of the usual bird sitting in a tree situation. Well done shot too. Nice.

There's no rocks here, real or fake. The film was Elite Chrome Extra Color which explains the color scheme.

Ducks are such glutton for bread aren't they... http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5314862

Top notch in originality. Did you see some sort of a pattern being made by the waves or was this one of those happy accidents? It looks like a potential repeating pattern considering the other perpendicular waves.

7 all the way!

Nice scene.

Very cool Stephen. 

This looks like "Tree" in the Lumix "no expert" commercial.

"urchins of the sea"

Urchins of the sea would be, well, urchins since they live in the sea. Sea pigeons is a more fitting description... plop.

Cool photo however.

Lens pointing up towards tree pics have become boring over time for me but this caught my eye with the clear blue day, colors and design.

Best hummingbird shot I've seen.

"Lovely capture"

Is it a "capture" or is it a fabricated composite?

In a funny coincidence, this image was displayed on the left of the one above (for awhile) in the Browse Highest Ratings list... http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11662650

The flock of birds were juxtaposed right where the gun is pointing.

Was a camera ever involved?

Photoshop does wonders with color. But otherwise very good.

"Another masterpiece"

Well, if an ordinary porn pose and ordinary lighting with a statue thrown in amounts to being a masterpiece, then I guess you could call it that.

While the image was intriguing enough to catch my eye in the thumbnail, the selection failure was overwhelming once the image was seen in detail. Judging by the rest of the portfolio, the method of handling scene contrast has improved.

Bird shots usually don't catch my attention. This one did.

Saleem may be an excellent photographer and the image wonderful ect. but its not an 'incredible capture'. Its assembled. Why fake bird photos are frequently described as great captures, I don't know but maybe people are not able to spot fakes very well.

No cookie cutter format here.

I ditto Marc's observations.

Brightly lit, perhaps, but the lighting is poor. The harsh glare of a straight on flash or light with the attendant hard shadowing is evident. There is no effective diffusion, bouncing or other method to counter the effects. The other aspects of the image are fine and its a nice image otherwise but "so well lit" is an extremely incorrect attribute here.

While I dispute the quote, I like the photo and others in the portfolio (including some "well lit" images there).