The Great Chuck & Colin Bird / Boat Challenge!

[Alis]

My two (three) cents...

One,




Two,




Three,

[David]

Hi Sedali - Check this out for pelicans:




David

PS There's a boat as well.

[Dave Humphries]

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



C and C welcome

[CNelson]

Hi Sedali - Check this out for pelicans:




David

PS There's a boat as well.

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

Chuck

[Alis]

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

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

Interesting picture.

[Davey]

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.

[crisscross]

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

[Dave Humphries]

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

[Davey]

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

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

[CNelson]

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

Chuck

[pixel pete]

I found this in archives. Just a junker.

http://peterphun.com/blog

[sbartell]

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.

[john w revie]

Argyll's Most Important Boat
I have posted a bird now the boat

[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

[Colin Southern]

Argyll's Most Important Boat
I have posted a bird now the boat

Hi John,

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

[Colin Southern]

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

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?

[john w revie]

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

[Colin Southern]

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.

[Dave Humphries]

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



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,

[Roxy]

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.