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Nice shot Hanh.

So that's what you were shooting down at the other end of the pond. 

It looks like the fish just flew into it's mouth.

Love the color.  I'm SO jealous of your selection of colorful birds.

Nice shot.  Hope all is well with you and  yours.

Beautiful shot.  The dof and light control is superb. 

Nice work.

Nice shot Tue,

I understand that the flood of  shots from HMB was mostly caused by some extensive plowing and cutting of some field areas which exposed a lot of  small prey. It may be all "fished out" now.

I'll go for this one.  I like the apparent work between the sky and the timbers.  The colors and light are wonderful

Besides, you don't have to get your knees wet this way..

Beautiful and so apropos.

Was this shot inside or outside the house....:-) 

A beautiful piece of work Len.  You really nailed this one; dof, comp., framing and the colors, all perfect. 

It looks so very floral. 

The incredible color of these birds is amazing and to just have them hanging about in your garden... what a treat.

You folks "down there" certainly have the market cornered when it comes to colorful birds.

Nice work Louise, thanks for sharing and

Have a Happy New Year.

Nice set of book-ends!

The setting and bg really make this work. 

Even Snow Leopards like to snuggle when it gets cold, eh.

Have a fine 2014 Ron.

Love the colors Len,

It looks like a cold place for a duck...

Have a great 2014.

A creative piece of  dazzle. Nice  work Harry.

A fine capture of a busy street moment.  So much going on. 

Nice work.

Nice shot but from the steel bars etc. it looks like they might have been a bit naughty... :-)

Ah, the moment.  Nice work.

There's nothing like a mother's  tenderly prepared meal...

Hey Tue,

Nice shot... I have NO  idea of where this  was shot..  (chortle)

I  used to think  that there was a demonstrable preference on grabs but looking back at a lot of these, I'm less certain.

This natural tapestry really comes alive when viewed large.  You might just add that note to the title.. ie "Please view larger"

Thanks guys. The bird had the fish by the tale so it was flailing about. Naturally, every time the fish popped up its head, the wings were in a lousy position.  The temptation to photoshop the head up was almost overpowering.

Great job Ruud, now I know what to put  on my Christmas list, thanks...

An entertaining piece of work, nice job;

 The Doublemint Twins rerun reruns.

Hard to argue with perfection. Nice work Alf.

Hi Mark, thanks for your comments.  This is the sort of thing that I wish that more folks did instead of just posting some useless number. 

I messed with the crop on this image longer than I probably should have but I wanted to bring out the action in the image.  The full frame is fun too and I have posted it here. 

As usual, I invite all viewers to download the larger file, adjust it with their ideas in mind and post it here.  If anyone wants to know how to do this;

Click on the image to get the larger file

Right click on the image and select Save As and put it on your desktop

Open the image in Photoshop or whatever, adjust to your liking and save BUT BE SURE THAT THE LONGEST SIDE of the image is NO GREATER THAN 625 PIXELS long or it will not work.

Now come back to this page and use "Contribute Critique" as usual to post you comments. BUT after you click "Confirm" you will see a small "Browse" window.  Click Browse, find your modified image and click Open.  You MUST put something in the "Caption" widow to proceed.  Click Upload and Viola!

I look forward to your ideas and those of others.  There are a few folks are a bit sensitive about others messing with their images so have a good look at their own comments and you will quickly identify those who wreak of  unearned smugness.  So far I have had no complaints from ideas that I have posted even though we don't always agree as artists but we can always learn.  I love to see other folks ideas and I learn a lot from them.

Thanks again.

Steve

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Thanks everybody,

The comments on clarity are surprising since this image isn't even sharpened.  I really only put it up for my birder friends for documentation that this character was, in fact, hanging out here again.  It's just another BOASS. :-)