Ascent
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Comment by cloudsme:
Great capture. 7

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Comment by CNovack:
What really makes this shot beautiful is the stork and the golden hues of the sky. Absolutely love the outsretched wings of this stork/crane taking flight. It takes flight into a golden sky. The golden hues are both warm & soothing. The color of the sky makes me think of a early morning when there is a hushed quiet that is only broken by the flapping of wings. I am looking at this image and I do see one simple way to posibly improve on it should you like the suggestion. Are you familiar with some of those Japanese paintings done on corkboard. Some are very beautiful and elegant. Most of those I have seen feature birds such as peacocks, storks or cranes. Because they are painted on cork the composition of such art is mostly tall, rectangular panels. I think you can easily mimic that Japanese styled artwork by cropping 1/3 of the picture from the left. That way the ascent of the stork/crane dominates the scene even more.

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Comment by pineapple:
You have captured a classic heron form there. I would have been inclined to crop some of the sky at the top of the image.

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Comment by Jaded_Housewife:
wow, thats one weird looking bird. cool.6

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Comment by Elvis_L:
interesting capture. I wish it was crisper.

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Comment by Sinky:
love the negative space.

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Comment by DrAchoo:
Would have worked well in the Zen challenge. I sorta wish the horizon wasn't there at all for a total minimalism shot, but it's not a huge deal. The does look soft compared to the crane. I love the gradient 7.

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Comment by scarbrd:
cool! love the negative space here.

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Comment by Cheerz:
Nice execution and good B/W post processing.. watch the headroom .. the doorframe is cropped too closely to the edge of the photo.. 6 for me.

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Comment by sjturner:
imo I think the bird has become detached from the photo, a bit too much pp which is a big shame, the capture looks great