This is a near 100% crop of a photo taken with my Lumix FH20 (there is no listing for the FH20, so I selected my LZ7 to hold the prestigious position). The only editing I did was crop, very slightly sharpen it to blacken birds a touch and add border, that's it! The subjects are a bald eagle and a ton of little black birds that flew over and landed in the same tree. The 800 iso and overzealous in-camera sharpening left the photo looking like a painting, something I found quite intriguing, and so I thought I would enter it. Of course I fully expect that it will crash and burn, as the average DPC'r throws lit matches at it ;)
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Thanks for all the positive comments. I entered this because I thought it was interesting and was curious if anyone would see that it was in fact sharpened noise that gives it this look. I did not expect it to do well, but just felt it was something that would be appreciated by a few, and it seems that it was.
Is the Eagle telling the rest of them to buzz off? If those are crows they may tell him "no!" Or maybe they did, and he's preparing to take off and let them have the stupid tree ;-)
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.
Positives: This has the quality of watercolour on parchment (I think that is interesting). Looking at the quality of the rendition, it is easy to overlook the subject matter which is, of course, compelling. I particularly like the way the small birds seem to bleed into the background. I also like your composition / framing which I think is bang-on.
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