Dawn Crows
by jomari

Comment:
Flying birds can take on some strange looking forms when you shoot them at low shutter speeds. The noise is curiously almost like a texture overlay. Good blur.

I Sing the Body Electric!
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
WTG YO!!
That's a grand image, and a stroke of good luck to have the superb sky for the shoot.

Swamp Thing
by Ja-9

Comment:
Wow, what a great image of this medium sized gator critter!
Big congrats on your ribbon in the Orange (County) Audubon Society photo contest too.
You really nailed this shot.
It's like the crisp and sharp evil twin to my "Swamp Evil" blur image. Interestingly, we were doing a DPC GTG in Ft Myers when I shot it.

"Quackers"
by Denise

Comment:
Ah, a Military Macaw. There's one just like this here in my home, and his name is Pepper.
You have a beautiful photo of this one. The feather colors are exactly as they appear live, and the bokeh in the BG is sweet, and isolates the feather edge detail nicely.

Reflection
by mbrutus2009

Comment:
This is really nice Marco. Congrats on your top ten finish with it.

Bashed Eye Dragonfly
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
I bet this poor critter has a very strange perception of reality if it can still see with the curvy compound eye. Excellent find and shooting.

T i M B e R
by sherpet

Comment:
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING AND CREATIVE IMAGES HERE ON DPC. I LIKE THAT IT WAS CREATED BY COMING UP WITH AN IDEA, PUTTING THE PIECES IN PLACE, THEN PHOTOGRAPHING IT. IT'S AN ACTUAL SCENE, NOT A COMPUTER CREATION.

THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT LITTLE DETAILS IN THIS, WITH ALL THE COLORED PENCIL TRIMMINGS AND THE TEXTURES IN THE WOOD THAT I COULD STUDY IT FOR A WHILE AND NOT GET TIRED OF SEEING IT.

THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR OUTSTANDING TALENT FOR FINDING SOMETHING GREAT TO SEE IN THE EVERYDAY THINGS AROUND YOU.

IMG_5507 venus in transit
by sfalice

Comment:
It must have been foggy there, or overcast. Still, this is much better than what we saw here, which was solid clouds.
I sort of like the hazy foggy look to this one.
Seeing the shooting info, you must have been able to look at it with only sunglasses.

Broken Bridge
by Ja-9

Comment:
This is a strange thing to see. The road bed was added to the old RR trestle left over from the Overseas Railway after the '35 hurricane. They added structure above the RR and put the road surface on top of that. It's falling into the water now, a piece at a time. The "spalling" of the concrete is from the rebar rusting inside the concrete, because they mixed the concrete with salt water when the bridge was built. It makes the concrete pop open like that.
This is a marvelous location for vacationing. It's about 40 miles from Ke West and has a nice anchorage (anchored there before,) good campground and award winning beaches with beautiful water.

A beautiful couple
by Lelez

Comment:
Wow, what a splendid photo Lele.