Owl
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Comment by tyt2000:
This is really cool! You should have went back to reshoot it for the challenge :)

You go your way ... I'll go mine
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Comment by justine:
They have headlights on their tails.. very cool.

You go your way ... I'll go mine
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Comment by graphicfunk:
captivating.

Retired after 50 years
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Comment by nicklevy:
Hi Andy. I like this photo very much. If I'm allowed to make some suggestions. 1st: SEPIA, 2nd It look a little like a partial crop from a bigger photo but this can be from dowsizing too. If it's from downsizing, I think it's maybe from a 5% step dowsizing. the 5% step technique may do a good job for UPSIZING, but for downsizing it's really no good as most photo will come aggressive looking in the details like this one. 3rd If it's possible get your pole in the middle straight, as an anchor in your photo. 4th make a print of that one.

sleeping beauty
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Comment by L1:
Wow Andi...this is really nice. Makes going to the pub worthwhile! :o)

sleeping beauty
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Comment by GeneralE:
I can't really think of any improvement on this; maybe I'd play with giving the background a blue or golden cast instead of the pretty pure black it seems to be now.

OK, MAYBE run the blur or burn tool along the top-left wing edge where you seem to have a tough of haloing. Otherwise looks great!

Baby Falcon
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Comment by L1:
Wow...love the soft quality of his little baby feathers. Aaaawwww... :o)

Peacock
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Comment by Sammie:
How Lovely!

Tulip
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Comment by Ecce_Signum:
Erm, no need for me to say I messed up on this challenge. I really need to sort out my monitor.

Thanks for all the comments, I guess your colour calibration is better than mine ;)

Out ot the cam, resized orig...

Tulip
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Comment by ChrisW123:
What is that mess on the left side? Looks like you tried to clone out something but just gave up? The flower itself is great, nice lighting. The background is extremely distracting however. I'd have cropped this more so there's less background.