Breaking the Ice
by vawendy

Comment:
Cannot pretend that I did not guess the photographer even if we are presented here often with birds of all kinds. I am always amazed of what it takes to get a shot like this, all steps that are foreign to me or, let's say would be excruciating hard if not impossible for me: be in the right spot, carry heavy equipment, wait quietly rain or shine, take endless shots....after which there is the magic of processing, not too little, not too much. And then one is faced with the stern competition of the National Geographic. I like a lot the nod to Herr Rorschach. An idea would have been to turn the image vertically as in Breaking the Mirror. I much appreciate it anyway

Mental projection
by mitalapo

Comment:
When I stumbled upon this I rapidly whispered to the photographer: make it in B&W, sharpen, think Magritte...or Man Ray. Title it in quotation marks The Eternally Obvious

3. February
by PennyStreet

Comment:
A splendid color palette, composition and feel. Such a sincere image.

Winter's Hush
by kanaj

Comment:
I seldom disagree with Ken, but the fence makes a more real scene and we become spectators to the implied "action"

oh, hello
by kichu

Comment:
Truly enchanting capture

Sunday Sourdough
by smardaz

Comment:
With your bread and my coffee we can have a very satisfactory moment.

Drawn In Static
by posthumous

Comment:
Sleepless night when thoughts begin to take forms of unknown fauna and flora in splendor setting

The watchers
by hajeka

Comment:
A couple captured in a moment of dissonance.

The Magic Forest
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Magic forest with its mysteriously powerful attractive “door”

Pale Winter
by primabarbara

Comment:
I like a lot the composition of heavy and spindly form of nature. Solidity and chaos coexist

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