Black Swan.

[CivicMan]

Had a romantic weekend in Surrey - beautiful sunny morning today and an amazing black swan in the grounds of the hotel. Stick the two together... and voila!

[SimonV8ster]

Crikey !! Never seen one of those !! Is it bad luck though

Almost looks like the clouds have come out of its nose !!

[Reidy10_0]

Nice picture but i think the clouds need photoshoped away from the swans head.

[slartibartfast]

unless my laptop screen has gone titsup isn't the swan's face out of focus?

shame cos it would be quite a shot.

Paul

[CivicMan]

Yeah, bummer trying to keep the sod in focus!

Moved the sky!

[Reidy10_0]

Much better.
Nice picture

[jam101]

Reidy10_0 said:

Much better.
Nice picture

I have to disagree. The first picture is much more powerful. The clouds in the second confuse ones frame of reference.

[Blukoo]

Sorry, i just had to do this since its valentines day coming up.


I prefer the first pic. I only noticed the clouds when they were mentioned.
Even if there was a carnival in the background, the image of the black swan is powerful enough to draw attention to itself.

[CivicMan]

Nice one, I always think swans look better as a pair!

[iamlofi]

White Swan

[Gemm]

CivicMan said:

Nice one, I always think swans look better as a pair!

Yep. (shots over the weekend)

[cirks]

Should crop the first one around the head and part of the cloud and the result would look like the swan has just sneezed

[KB_S1]

When you moved the clouds in the 2nd pic did you also do something else?
It is just that the golden highlights on the swan seem to lost a lot of their shimmer from the original.

[Schmeeky]

Blukoo said:

Sorry, i just had to do this since its valentines day coming up.

Had to put these up.. first one not really relevant, but sets the scene





No photoshoppery involved!

edited for carp splelling

Edited by Schmeeky on Monday 11th February 13:18

[Blukoo]

Is that Macaulay Culkin in the top pic?