nice try, but i think it needs work. you need to push it just a bit further. a bit slower shutter and a bit more blur, and i think you'll have. great subject to be shooting. you might also want to get a little sharper focus (i know it's tough, but what isn't?).
Sorry but not really meeting the challenge as far as I am concerned, this looks pretty much frozen in time as far as I can see with a blurred backround. Anyway, not a bad shot at all, would have given it a 7 in a "bird" challenge but in this one I could not give more than a 4... Just figured you were entitled to an explanation.
Nice capture. Slightly slower shutter speed would be better for more motion panning blur to clearly show that you met the challenge, tough call as it makes it sharpness even more difficult, as if birding weren't hard enough!
Beautiful stop action on the pelican with a nice focus, however IMO the challenge to this challenge was to obtain a good background blur due to the action of following the subject with the camera, the background blur here seems to relate more to DOF issues then to motion panning
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