Grounded flock

I'm afraid I wouldn't have known they were seagulls without you saying so. But that sky is beautiful!

This may sound mischievious but I would have walked slowly towards the flock with my camera ready and shot them ascending against that sky - what a shot!

Mike Bell wrote in post #2225945
I'm afraid I wouldn't have known they were seagulls without you saying so. But that sky is beautiful!

This may sound mischievious but I would have walked slowly towards the flock with my camera ready and shot them ascending against that sky - what a shot!

agreed they are kind of small

Thanks for your comments. Well, I shouldn't have mentioned the seaguls. It's NOT a bird shot... so I don't really care much about their size. I understand them just as a part of the bigger context. Theres the sky, the leading lines on the ground, the tree row at the horizon, the composition, the colors... and yeah, there are small seaguls too.

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habakuk wrote in post #2226288
Thanks for your comments. Well, I shouldn't have mentioned the seaguls. It's NOT a bird shot... so I don't really care much about their size. I understand them just as a part of the bigger context. Theres the sky, the leading lines on the ground, the tree row at the horizon, the composition, the colors... and yeah, there are small seaguls too.

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Ok if you state it like this it a whole lot better

habakuk wrote in post #2226288
Theres the sky, the leading lines on the ground, the tree row at the horizon, the composition, the colors... and yeah, there are small seaguls too.

And don't forget the rocket taking off in the background.

I, too, would have been tempted to walk toward the birds in order to get them to take flight for an action shot.

J T wrote in post #2231994
And don't forget the rocket taking off in the background.

I, too, would have been tempted to walk toward the birds in order to get them to take flight for an action shot.

"Holy guacamole batman there is a rocket in the background"

I think almost every one would have been tempted

Thanks for your comments.

Yeah right. And most of them who would be tempted would then be shot by the farmer who knows tourist photographers always have these plans... trampling his freshly growing plants

Seriously, with this composition, so much sky, so few ground, did you really think it was a bird shot?

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Sorry if we seemed to be getting at you habakuk. I think it is a fine landscape photograph and I now see what you were thinking as you took it.

With that in mind I would crop off the lower part with the horizontal furrows so that the vertical furrows act as leading lines to the birds and the horizon (including that intriguing rocket), and then upwards into that gloriuos sky.

Mike Bell wrote in post #2233769
Sorry if we seemed to be getting at you habakuk.

No problem here. I take critics with no hard feelings. Only, I always end up thingking I should not supply any title at all, as it so often leads the viewers to put too much weight on it. Imagine, I wrote: "Open skies" as the title... what difference that would make to you!

Mike Bell wrote in post #2233769
With that in mind I would crop off the lower part with the horizontal furrows so that the vertical furrows act as leading lines to the birds and the horizon (including that intriguing rocket), and then upwards into that gloriuos sky.

Right, That's a good idea. Without the horizontal stripes, nothing hinders the eye to follow the lines into the depth of the scene.

And btw... the "rocket" is a wind mill... I should have cloned that out.

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