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Hey George,

You should have posted these more slowly in a series. WOW, what a collage. Some of them are quite nice. There are a bunch that I really like.



Thank you James. Yes I may have overdone it a little. It is always a challenge balancing size
and resolution on the web.

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The first is the frog - great stance and great light.



Actually it's not a frog. It's a common ground lizard.

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The second is the one of the two birds - just great capture. Do you know what type of bird that one attacking the hawk (I think?) is?



That's one of the White-tailed Kites (from the two roosting in the tree) attacking a Red-tailed Hawk.
They really don't get along too well.

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The 3rd set, the florals, are quite nice as well. They were captured quite well.

The last shot, I like the composition. You might want to try Roman's blending technique on it though.

Thanks for sharing all of these great shots!
James



I guess you missed the parenthetic reference to using Roman's technique on the last one. This
was a particularly high dynamic range image and the only thing that saved it was using the
HDR technique. I really wanted to just give enough exposure of the lagoon region to provide some
detail. Because it was really dark if I pushed it any more there was a real noise problem.

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