Spring is here!
by SaraR

Comment by salmiakki:
Sara this is just wonderful. I love it.

Spring is here!
by SaraR

Comment by JuliBoc:
The hares are wonderful, and nicely isolated from their surrounding. I think I would like the image better if some of the foreground blur was cropped away. But that is just my personal reaction to most foreground blur. Congratulations on a really high placement in the very large field of entries.

Spring is here!
by SaraR

Comment by h2:
absolutely underrated. my fav in the challenge.

Spring is here!
by SaraR

Comment by Melethia:
Check you out - a zz comment! A very rare and wonderful treat, and well deserved for this magical capture. This shot was well worth the stake-out.

Ratty
by SaraR

Comment by meyers:
This reminds me of a pet rat I had named Blue (it was a "blue" rat). Such a great pet; it'd eat things out of my hand without biting me even once. It's too bad they don't live very long. You captured the hair and eyes perfectly, but the background is a little grainy.

The Strid
by SaraR

Comment by meyers:
This looks like a Bear_Music shot! The sky is a little blown out though. It sounds like you might have benefited from a polarizing or some kind of gradient filter to lower the exposure a bit.

The Wind Gently Blows
by SaraR

Comment by meyers:
The background bokeh has a dreamy quality. I think if the leaves just to the left of the center ones were sharp this would have scored much higher.

Cold and Wet
by SaraR

Comment by meyers:
There's a lot happening in this shot. Given your conditions, I might have tried to pick out something that'd line up in the narrow DOF, like the brown grassy thing behind the right flower looking thing (I'm bad at botany). The large blurred flower looking thing on the left demands attention with its color, but ends up being just a distraction.

Imposing
by SaraR

Comment by meyers:
Very sharp, great contrast and leading lines, no wonder you picked this for a "best of" entry!

Coming in to land
by SaraR

Comment by meyers:
The clipped wing doesn't bother me too much; it almost makes the bird look like he's a little closer. The second one in the background doesn't intersect with the first at all, and is framed nicely by the subject's wing. Unfortunately, the bird and the water are both washed shades of gray. With advanced editing, you could give the water a slight blue tint, making both birds jump out a bit.