An Ordinary Duck
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Comment by wardmac:
cute little fellow, nice focus on the eyes. composition is not pleasing as he is too left of center which makes it feel as though he is leaving the frame of the photo. he needs to be entering the framework. colors, contrast and saturation all very nice.

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Comment by KarenNfld:
This is my favourite of the challenge. The light is amazing.

An Ordinary Duck
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Comment by KarenNfld:
Cute mallard, I like how it is sitting in ripples. Very good colour and detail as well.

An Ordinary Duck
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Comment by Natasha:
I like the colours here, the blues are lovely

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Comment by rwo82939:
Beautiful lighting excellent DOF, a feel real image

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Comment by NorthStar:
nice shot, very clean and crisp

An Ordinary Duck
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Comment by sailracer_98:
I like the ripples in the water. Nice duck portrait.

An Ordinary Duck
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Comment by ClubJuggle:
At first I was going to say this is a rather ordinary photo, but I do rather like how you've captured the ripples emanating out. A polarizer might have helped lessen the haze int he water at the top. I'd have also preferred to see the stray feather on the right side of the image cloned out. I say cloned rather than cropped, because cropping would have lost the symmetery of the ripples. The feather does seem to break the symmetry and the otherwise clean circles.

An Ordinary Duck
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Comment by loseme:
Wow excellent shot, the ripples are prefect for this piece. Wonderful job!

An Ordinary Duck
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Comment by BrianR:
A very good sharp photo, IMHO the crop would have been better if the body had been placed in the 1/3 rather than the eye.