I would've voted it a 5. It's not a bad photo, but I think the DPC crowd is just overwhelmed with crazy good wildlife/nature photos. It's REALLY hard to enter one and get much of anything. I consider any nature type shot I can pull over a 6 to be a pretty big success in DPC land.
Now, you don't always need to have exotic animals, but you DO need to have them in a dynamic and unusual way. The more ordinary your object the more you need to remove it from that ordinary-ness that the voter feels. For this, making the bird more prominent in the frame, either alighting or landing, looking at the camera, showing intensity, that sort of thing, will go a long way.
As a personal thing, I normally try to keep my nature/wildlife shots devoid of the non-natural unless I'm using it as a part of the statement of the photo. The reason I do this is because people have this idea with wildlife that there is still this pristine world that is untouched, and they react more to this romanticized vision than if you didn't take that approach.
I did find it amusing, but you have to make humor a stronger focus if you're trying to garner votes from it. |
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