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Uploaded: 03/03/07 8:23 PM GMT
Swan
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Captured this very elegant fellow just before he hissed noisily for feeding crackers to Quackers and not to him. The Antwerp Blue water is the result of having used a CPL (and a touch of HSL in PS).

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::tigger3
03/03/07 8:25 PM GMT
Love the swan! Anne-Marie and he is so elegant. This is just lovely. Tigs
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Are we thinking spring yet?.
.hdwillems
03/03/07 8:43 PM GMT
Wow Anne-Marie, you fixed it again! I like this swan.
Very bright and sharp photo, great capture. My compliments!
Herman
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solita17
03/03/07 9:06 PM GMT
Wow, he's comin' in for a landing, he's rufflin' his feathers, he's about to.... hiss! Beautiful shot, Anne-Marie. Exceptional. T'riffic. Fine detail, and I love the rippling reflection. How close were you? I've seen one of these guys attack a small child to defend his lady on her nest. They are beautiful but they can get ornery.
xo
mary
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"If I dream I shall be real, or really myself..." Robert Penn Warren
::foofoo
03/03/07 9:18 PM GMT
Such a beautiful capture Anne-Marie. The effects you've used give it a mystical look and feel. Very nicely done. I really love the lighting in this also.
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May your walls know joy,May every room hold laughter,and every window open to great possibility: Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
.Truitje
03/03/07 9:18 PM GMT
What a nice picture!!! I like it verry much.
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Be great in little things.
.DixieNormus
03/03/07 9:39 PM GMT
You captured that that fellow beautifully. I hope you kept him around with the crackers so you could take of few more of this guy. =)
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::theshrew
03/03/07 9:49 PM GMT
Fabulous capture and beautiful presentation!
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Seneca
::DigiCamMan
03/04/07 12:22 AM GMT
What a grand looking Duck...very nice.
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::mimi
03/04/07 4:44 AM GMT
Great capture Anne-Marie. I love how your caught the light playing off of the swans outstretched wings. Your feathered friend does not look like a happy camper.:) Using the polarizer lens really made the water impressive and added a lot of depth to this entire image.
Swans always make for a lovely photograph (IMHO). Thank you for sharing this one with me ;=)
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~mimi~
.twinkel
03/04/07 10:04 AM GMT
like a king under the birds:)) very good lighting in his feathers
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laughter is the best medicine.
::Dunstickin
03/04/07 11:12 AM GMT
He's a coming for you...an angry look on his chops and the fluffin' feathers are the warning signs!

Good presentation and contrasts!
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.ivygay
03/04/07 1:53 PM GMT
love how you captured the swan... and the wings like that... so wonderful!
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::cynlee
03/05/07 1:58 AM GMT
What a beautiful swan and he looks just wonderful in that really blue water. Nice shot.
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You will be led to the knowledge of the internal things which are invisible to you, by the external things which you see before you. . . . Even so then, we can represent to ourselves in thought the Author of all that is, by contemplating and admiring the (visible) things which He has made, and ever brings into being. - Hermes
.jcferg99
03/09/07 8:35 PM GMT
Excellent shot. Were you bribing him with one of your Cornish Pasties as well? LOL
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.Avalonmoon
03/15/07 6:40 PM GMT
Beautiful light, captured something there!
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.LANJOCKEY
03/04/08 4:32 AM GMT
Hello Anne-Marie....Emblematic in the perfect moment of capture...The dark blue of the water lends a deceptive softness that heightens the impact of the pose .... Wonderful!....Well done Anne...All the best...Mick.
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.icedancer
06/26/10 10:50 PM GMT
Whoa, this is a Spectacular capture of this most magnificent swan. Excellent colours and lighting plus presentation
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