I shot this bird last week on a rainy day at Lake Balaton, Hungary. I shot her with a camera, so she is alive. :) This is my entry to the current contest. Thank you for all of your comments and votes.
I just gave this one an 8 in the VB because the focus, color, and transparency is excellent. I might suggest, however, that it would have been even better, and certainly a good entry in the "reflections" contest, if you'd cropped the bottom 1/4 off the image. That would have created a nice pano and eliminated the washed stones at the bottom. Just a thought. If it's okay with you I'd like to snag a copy, crop it that way and add it to a "water" screen saver I've made of about 275 of the best water images I've seen on Caedes.
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-Nik