Throw away?

I was out at the zoo last week playing with my new 40D. Just wondering if anyone finds this interesting?? My husband says,"Uhhhh.....No."
Rosie

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Damn! I hate it when he's right!

yep, sorry

If the other bird wasn't present and the distracting shadow in the foreground wasn't present, then maybe. But as it is, no, sorry.

Keep it. Peel out the legs and use them in something later. I can see where they might be used to drop into another image to make a colage.

acchildress wrote in post #6382401
Keep it. Peel out the legs and use them in something later. I can see where they might be used to drop into another image to make a colage.

Now that I would like to see!

I like odd stuff Crop and convert.lol....I would keep it! Its a play with photo.

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Go find a picture of a duck/chicken/penguin or some other small bird looking up, and drop that between the 2 sets of legs.

Flo wrote in post #6385279
I like odd stuff Crop and convert.lol....I would keep it! Its a play with photo.

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Not that looks better.

I'd keep it too... I played with some edits of the photo and I agree with Flo that it works best as a b&w. A couple things to notice: The shadow at the lower left and the disturbed sand are a little distracting, so I cloned these areas out. The black border brings the photo together, I think.

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Sorry, I posted this and then left for the weekend. Thanks, Gail & Reign I like both of your attempts better than mine! It might be a keeper after all
Rosie

Just another note: be careful sharpening the image if you do so later on because you may end up with some painful looking sand. In my edit, I selected the legs and sharpened them separately from the sand; the sand was left as was.

I just highlighted....its a sharp photo already...do a Andy Warhol treatment..lol...lots of different colors and frame it!

Crop/tweak it until it's interesting!

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I like Reign's crop, and the clone work done on the bottom left corner. Good choices!
The picture works better BnW IMO

I would disagree with your husband; and some of others who have replied to this post.

The post-crop image has something the viewer needs to think about. It stimulates ones mind. Its beautiful, for me, because what u dont see as a shadow, u see as the real part of its body, and vice versa.

Think of it as a compressed image, to understand my POV. If you captured the entire bird, the image wud be vertical and large; and would have absolutely no significance to it. When it is as it is now (post-crop), it is small in size, yet full of meaning. To uncompress, we should use our imagination.
Nice work!