Have some milk dear
by lastef

Comment by scarbrd:
nice comp, seems a little soft on the focus. 7

Have some milk dear
by lastef

Comment by Simpa:
very nice capture..

Have some milk dear
by lastef

Comment by Jutilda:
She's smiling!!! How adorable. Great DOF.

Have some milk dear
by lastef

Comment by ShutterPug:
great capture - an unexpected Blue ribbon for you I am guessing. 10

Into my favs with this beauty

Have some milk dear
by lastef

Comment by Balko:
1-2 Meets Challenge - 2
1-3 Technical Merit - 3
1-3 Creativity - 2
1-2 Extra Credit - 1
Final Score - 8

Surviving in the cold
by lastef

Comment by amber:
Hi from the Critique Club!

My initial reaction to this was that I wasn't quite sure if the bird is dead or not!

Those eggs are a wonderful green, especially against the red of that poor chick. The oranges and browns of the branches and nest are also really nice.

I can see why you left that wonderful twisted branch in the image, it has lovely colour, texture and shape, but as one of the other voters stated, it distracts the eye a little from the nest which is the main focus.

The focus also seems to be sharper on the branch that the eggs and chick, so a smaller aperture or moving in much closer would fix that. It would also emphasize the snow more, which is a more essential part of the story here, than the branch.

This is one of those scenes that we rarely come across, well done for capturing it!

Blue sun
by lastef

Comment by narek:
Awesome flower. One of my favorites. Looks like what we call a Himalayan Poppy, or Meconopsis. I hope there are still some in bloom in early September. We have plans to be in Iceland then.

Surviving in the cold
by lastef

Comment by san62910:
Nice color. Would like to have the limb at the top cropped. It's distracting and seems to be more in focus than the nest and eggs. I hope the babies survived.

Hot earth
by lastef

Comment by jdannels:
I really like the depth of field but would have liked to see the horizon straightened

Surviving in the cold
by lastef

Comment by tate:
this is disturbing a bit because it appears to be a dead bird.