Many thanks for you votes. Yo-spiff- you are absolutely right. I had another go at this and came to the conclusion that my critical faculties went AWOL at some stage during this. I don't even know how I mahaged to generate the artefacts.
I love this scene and want to give it a very high vote, but I can't. There is an excessive amount of JPEG compression that is hurting the detail and clarity of this image. I can see obvious comrpession artifacts around some of the seagulls. Compression kills detail. Always use the least compression you can get away with and still come in under challenge limits.
Still gets a vote on the positive side of the scale. Despite that major technical "oops", it's a wonderful image and I should reward you with a good vote for what you did accomplish with it.
I love this image, the birds, the mother and child and the fog raising from the sea. I would however crop it @ the 230pixles on the left to get rid of the distracting pipes.
this is a wonderful image! I feel like I'm stalking those people and what a great capture of parallel lines while still makeing an interesting photo :-)