Thanks everyone for your nice comments, it is very encouraging.


Dave, I really like the reaction of the monkey in the last image,one looksso serious, the other looks dissapointed, were you doing something that they didn't approve of ? [] j/k! I think you can enhance the image by sharpening it, looks like the softness is due to resizing.


Jayson, that is one nice image, a classic pose and composition of apeacock.


I took a walk at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve and found this heron hunting smelts


40D & 400 f/5.6L, f/6.3, 1/3200, ISO 250, -1


This is fullframe. The larger version came straight out of the camera, I onlyresized, sharpened and added a border. For this one, I felt that the bg is too blue so I desaturated the bg. I also blended the black area in the ULC.





Larger Version http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9420259&size=lg


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