Because of the validation requests...
Here's the shot right before the original:
here is the original :)
By the way, it didn't hurt, it was just surprising. They were incredibly forward that day. Usually you can't get them to eat from your hand, but that day, I couldn't even get focused before they grabbed it, 90% of the time!! Got nipped two times, was incredibly surprised that I actually got it in the shot!
I stand by my origional comment Your still a Freak... 100... if you invite me up and show me your secrets, then I'll give it 1 Billion and you'll win ALL THE MONEY IN THIS CHALLENGE....( of course you get to buy my plane ticket )
Jeez, that trained Polly (Polly want a cracker?) appears in lots of your photos! 2 for using trained fowl in your foto! 17 for the danger factor and 24 for the image, thus you get...(....carry the 1...plus 3). 1M!
She serves Ritz Crackers to the Sea Gulls, which explains the fluorescent droppings all around that neighborhood. This is, basically, beyond Monty Python. I'd be ribboning it in a FS, but I'm weird. The bathos of it moves me to score it 37.
You definitely have a magic way witch birds and beasts (read squirels) . This is a spectacular picture. Its splendid technical merit does not shadow the mood and the story.
Your a Freak!! How can one person keep comming up with such intrestring Sea Gull shots?? Oh oops forgot squirrels took over for a while! BTY did it hurt?
Ok so this isn't a real comment, actually thought I left it on the 1st edit,,,,
Wendy this would have been excellent for the fool the veiwer challenge. Such fun processing. ETA: sorry didn't read the rules. Well I guess I will just leave it now.