you're gonna have to serve somebody
by mefnj

Comment:
Best of the bunch for me

Celebration
by rooum

Comment:
Coming back to bump it. My favorite.

"Creosote Flower"
by JakeKurdsjuk

Comment:

Originally posted by Ammie: Great shot but I feel more than see a tilt

And is this a bad thing? Verticals are, well, vertical, which isn't easy on an old barn.

Distracted Cycling
by clickodak

Comment:
Would have loved some more motion in the cyclist

high tea
by Neat

Comment:
Well spotted. Congratulations on your ribbon.

Let's find our way home, buddy.
by sarampo

Comment:
My top image. Well deserved ribbons. Congrats.

Just You and Me
by grahamgator

Comment:
One of my favorites - had a feeling it was yours, Mary Ann. Congrats on the Blue.

The List
by vawendy

Comment:
bump for my favorite

Reunion at The Barrel
by hahn23

Comment:
Right idea, just wish you'd pulled back the artsy filtering.

New Growth, First Flight
by JakeKurdsjuk

Comment:

Originally posted by chalice: I like the composition, Jake. Makes me wonder what was going through its mind at that moment.

This is Elvis, the last to leave the box. Unlike its two siblings, which first flew to the deck rail and then the trees, Elvis missed the rail, wound up on the deck, then tried to fly through the roof of our gazebo to defeat gravity before resting on another deck rail for 5 minutes before finding this branch on the other side of the yard from its siblings. It sat there for 2 hours, even through my lawnmowing, just looking around, taking in everything this "outside the box" world had to offer, all while its parents divebombed potential predators, like the Blue Jays that had taken two baby bluebirds from the box the week before.

I shot video of them leaving and as each new face sticks its head out of the hole for the first time it's hard not to imagine them thinking, "Holy moly, look at all this stuff!!", after only having seen blue sky and the back of the neighbor's house for their entire lives. The exit took about 45 minutes and I've was able to compress it to 15. You can hear my D500 whirring away in the background, but better yet you can hear the call and response of parent and baby luring them out.