The Great Chuck & Colin Bird / Boat Challenge!

My two (three) cents...

One,

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/1...5resizehz2.jpg


Two,

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/1...8resizefm5.jpg


Three,

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/9...7resizemf0.jpg

Hi Sedali - Check this out for pelicans:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3263/...66d15bfb_b.jpg


David

PS There's a boat as well.

Well, now it's official, this site, and this thread in particular, has inspired me to go take a better bird picture! :)

http://lh5.ggpht.com/__CoX44REbIs/SX..._7260-1600.jpg

C and C welcome

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Originally Posted by David

Hi Sedali - Check this out for pelicans:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3263/...66d15bfb_b.jpg


David

PS There's a boat as well.

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Nice shots Sedali and David. Now we know why boats and rocks near shore are white.

Chuck

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Originally Posted by David

Hi Sedali - Check this out for pelicans:
PS There's a boat as well.

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Birds on the boat in a bird and boat competition! Very suspicious David...

Interesting picture.

Best angle I could get due to position and fact it's now behind a fence. It's a class IX uboat (U534 to be precise) but you can only really see the conning tower properly. I cropped most the fence out and a fair amount of front is missing (it's been cut into pieces for exhibit) so tried to hide this fact. It's lit up blue of a night recently.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3133/...05d0aafd_b.jpg

funny how deadly killers can look like photographers props; nicely done

The lighting really makes this shot, but it's been captured and processed skillfully, well done

http://www.uboat.net/boats/u534.htm

this one wasn't so deadly at zero tonnage sunk and zero ships damaged ;)

Very dramatic image Nocturne. It's one that takes a second look for sure.

Chuck

http://peterphun.com/images/tongkang.jpg

I found this in archives. Just a junker.

http://peterphun.com/blog

http://ggch9a.blu.livefilestore.com/...4w/beach-3.jpg

I remember seeing this boat anchored off shore for about a year. The guy would just paddle in for whatever he needed to do on land... until a storm rolled through. One day she's anchored happy at see, two later she's beached and tattooed.

Argyll's Most Important Boat
I have posted a bird now the boat
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/244/1...cd2e503b_o.jpg

Hi All,
I'm very new at this site. Spent yesterday looking around. I'm posting a shot I took in Aruba in October. The pelican was having a hard time trying to land. He usually crashed in the water, but this time he made a smooth landing on the rocks.

ED

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Originally Posted by john w revie

Argyll's Most Important Boat
I have posted a bird now the boat
https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...p;d=1233081531

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Hi John,

I'm afraid that I'm not seeing your image at on my screen.

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Originally Posted by Ed Bosler

Hi All,
I'm very new at this site. Spent yesterday looking around. I'm posting a shot I took in Aruba in October. The pelican was having a hard time trying to land. He usually crashed in the water, but this time he made a smooth landing on the rocks.

ED

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Hi Ed, welcome to the site. I can remember a few times having trouble trying to land back in the days I was flying aeroplanes - so the bird has my sympathies (at least birds never forget to lower the undercarriage!).

Your image is looking a bit soft on my screen - just wondering if you've done any sharpening on it?

Thank again Colin
I was trying to post from my mac It looked ok I have looked at the file from my laptop no photo. from now on I will post from a hosting site
john

No worries John. I could have sworn that I saw a thumbnail image associated with the post earlier on (but still not displaying), and then that seemed to disappear.

One last birdie shot from me, something to see the feathers on this time

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/580...1600pz2.th.jpg

A grey bird against a grey background, so not ideal.

Best viewed full size; please click into imageshack page twice to get it on its own, without the webpage.

Your thoughts on composition and PP (e.g. sharpening) sought.

Thanks,

Enlarged, looks a bit "salt and peppered" on my screen .. is this due to sharpening?
An interesting image but a pity you had to crop his tail.