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A superior image, added to my favorites.  This is a perfect moment, beautifully lit and captured.  It brings us right into their lives and gives us plenty to study in the details.  Fantastic, wonderful work.  Bravo!

This image, among several, is truly beautiful.

i really like the "craggy" look of the pelican against the same look of the rocks.  Nice capture!

I don't think you need to apologize for the tall vertical aspect, it works really well.  A very pretty picture, and a well-balanced exposure.  This crop actually drew me to the image, making it perhaps more interesting than a typical 2x3 aspect ratio.  You get a little slice of everything.  Well done.

I like this.  I like the triangle created by the people, and the water pattern which complements their positioning.  Well done.

Wow, it's like he posed for you.  "Move a little to the left... ok back to the right... let me get the whitewater... ok stay...   Got it!!!!"

Another fantastic image.  Bravo again!

That's spectacular work, keeping the eyes in focus and losing the beak like that.  What a perfect job!  Did you make some sort of noise to get him to look right at you this way?  Great, great image!

OK, this is a great moment!  Looks like you were pretty low to the ground, almost "at their level", and it's about as intimate as it gets.  Fantastic capture, I can't think of any way to improve it, fantastic work.

I really like this angle, and the moment you chose.  Sandpipers being all about walking, what better choice than to capture the moment of taking a step.  It's a simple image, but dynamic, personal, and perfectly reflective of the animal's life.  Bravo indeed!  I rate it a 7, which I normally don't do.  But it calls to me.

Well, here's a "dissenting" view, I like the original crop!  But the sweet part is really the weather, and the brightness that peeks through in that little valley.  In my view, the extra foreground is good since you have the spectator.  If he was not present (or if you prefer to not have one), I would then have cropped maybe even more foreground and eliminated the land altogether, to give a more mystical feeling and make it look like an island.  Really go heavy on the sky and expand our view on the bright spot.

All these choices indicate to me that you caught a great moment, and did it well.  Bravo!

They are all little!  Nice shot though, it's only from photographing birds myself that I realized most of them "toss back" their food to eat it.  Makes sense of course, since most of them don't have a tongue that can pull it back for them.

Clarity, lighting are great, sharp focus, nice work!

Excellent.  You have to "click larger" to see the sharpness, at least at my end.  I don't think I've ever seen the tongue before, and that of course _makes_ this image.  Well done Charles!

Wow.  That had to be amazing to watch.  Nice action capture here, too.  He was not easily deterred, apparently.

Sweet!  Would like to see larger too, but it looks sharp and clear, well lit and I love the rushing river beneath him.

Nice frozen moment, and beautiful color, congrats

Crystal clear, nicely done.  Apparently this is a good little fishing spot, the right water for lunch at least.

Outstanding, we get the full sense of the environment along with a perfect "pose" by your subject, well lit to isolate him, and I love the headphones and flying hair... that hair is the only thing that really shows us it's not a seated dude who is superimposed into the shot!  Really well done.

Really powerful!  You couldn't do this with a Microsoft logo, because nobody feels that way about Microsoft =)

Beautiful artistry, and I love the sense of desolation amidst the markers, and the feeling that while we can only see 3 of them, that the markers go on forever.  The neutral, low contrast tones also enhance the sense of desolation that the composition creates... I like the single scavenger seagull as the only clear indication of life, too.  Really well done.

Wow, he is ugly!  Great job isolating the face and eyes with focus, did you do that all in-camera, or did you blur the shell a little bit post-processing?  It really works this way, and the pose is very interesting, with the turtle craning his neck.  Funny detail, I thought there was a camera spot for a moment, on his shell, lower part of the middle "panel", until I saw that same spot reflected in the water.

I really like this quite a bit.  Nice work!

Sweet!  Simple and perfect capture, it looks like he's barely got ahold of it, but he has.  Very nice, and it really makes me think differently about a seagull, because I expect scavenging, not clamming.  Well done, congrats!

I finally found the goldfinch thief, and couldn't resist getting this shot

because the face is fully obscured by the cushion stuffing... although

somehow it looked the bandit was still able to fly with a purpose to its nest.

Curses!!!

I like this a lot too.  Great balance, very interesting to scan over all the details.

Really interesting, nice to have not only the train blur, but also the sense that the standing train passenger is also watching the scene.  It would be nice if the pole didn't exist at all, but it does, and still the overall effect of the image is excellent.  Great work!

Another fine image, makes me want to listen to his music, too!

I really like this.  Normally I like bolder color, less pastels in my painting-like art, but this has great balance and beauty.  Sweetness.