Frog Legs Anyone?
by JMart

Comment:
Oh ... ick. Poor froggy :-( I know; it's nature. And a well-captured scene.

Flight of the Stork
by andrewt

Comment:
Nice detail on this guy! Good composition, too. Still not the prettiest bird, but well-captured ;-) Is he really that yellow? I only see storks in zoos so I'm not terribly familiar with the various types.

Aspire
by Melethia

Comment:
Great title and pose :-))) Bonus point for making me smile.

Dinner on the Lake
by briandsd

Comment:
Lovely scene. Quite serene, if you're not the fish being consumed ;-)

Beach Buddies
by sfmorris

Comment:
Cool heron! And very windblown. Hard to hunker down with those long legs, though. Love the detail on him and the hint of pink at the top of the shot. It would have been even cooler if he and the gull had more similar poses, but this works for me, too.

There's a fly on the eye of the frog on the log in the hole in the middle of the leaves!
by hazelmay

Comment:
Ack! Now I've got that old kiddie song in my head!!!

Great detail on the frog and fly (hoverfly of some kind?) and nice diagonal composition. I might try cloning some texture onto the blown bits of the leaf on the top left so it doesn't draw my eye past the frog.

Bombycilla garrulus - Bohemian Waxwing
by salmiakki

Comment:
What a cool bird and a perfect story-telling capture! I can even see his little tongue :-) A blue sky might have been a better background but really, this is darn close to perfect.

The Peregrine and the Field Mouse
by DrAchoo

Comment:
Ah, the icky part of nature: critters eating critters. Looks like a rather large (and white) field mouse. Bird is beautifully sharp, as he should be.

Call of the Wild
by MAK

Comment:
The pose here is spectacular! Absolutely spectacular. Focus and DOF are spot on. And before I digress, I voted this a 9.

But I'm going to nitpick, because the color is striking me oddly. The delineations feel artificial: the little patch of yellow he's standing in and then a soldly pinkish field behind and green and yellow in front, with no colors interspersed elsewhere. The trees in the back appear in clear bands of color. I don't know if that's processing or if it really looked that way, but it just doesn't appear natural to my eye. If he wasn't standing out well enough because of color I would have gone with B&W. Such a strong image would work well that way IMO.

Suprise Encounter
by SaraR

Comment:
Very cooperative of him to pause in a perfectly framed open area! Gorgeous beast.