interresting work !

nice photo. interesting title.

I like it, but would perhaps have tried to get a bit closer to capture a more dramatic angle.

Banjo: this was shot at the end of our walk and a) I didn't have my 70-200 with me, and b) couldn't be bothered to walk another step :) I take your point though, but quite like the distant perspective of this version. Also, it works much better at a higher resolution; i.e. it's easier to see the individual birds.

This would be cracking to see as a large print in a gallery :)

Dave, I think you may have just found the cause of you broadband dropouts! ;-).... I love this shot, reminds me of one of my kids PIXAR films, a comedy moment indeed.... makes me smile a lot. And I bagged the same image. Infact I think I saw it first!!!! csj @ id7

Craig: yep, you did see it first, that's why I posted it this week rather than wait for you to get yours posted ;-)

this is simply superb, very graphic

Great crop and an awesome title to go along with the image!

I'll just have to make sure mines better then, I guess I have a while to tweak it .... ;-) csj

What a good shot ! I've seen the same several times, but I haven't had de idea. I like it very much !

I like it, though as you suggest, I can imagine that it might be quite a lot better at higher res.

This reminds me of an animated kids movie :-) I can hear them japing over here..........
Well captured!

Dave, and I get your point :) I can totally imagine that a very very large print of this up on a wall would be really cool.

Hi Dave, here goes again,

Its an interesting photo for the contrast in what appears to be simple but really isn't. What caught my attention first were the birds sitting on the lines. There are so many for a split second you think the lines are thicker than they are, then you notice the breaks.

I noticed the contrast between the lifeless urban quality of the power lines themselves set against the life of the birds and the natural sky.

Its a very simple photo, almost monochromatic. It feels balanced. The heavier weight of the tower on the left compensates for the length of wire on the right.

The last thing I noticed was the way the gradients in the corners, not quite uniform like a vignette, but providing enough variation to keep your eyes interested.

The panorama works well also, accentuating the thinness of the wires and their length.

Good shot,

I like it Dave. I posted something 3 days ago along the same idea but not as wide-angled as yours. I zoomed in on a portion of it. http://cmldigitaldetails.com/photoblog/index.php?showimage=129

A simple but extremely pleasing image. I don't really know what else to say about, it just feels calming somehow.

Fun shot! starlings? looking at this I can hear the racket they make :-)

What a find! Too much birds!

Looks like Beethoven's 5th to me.

Nicely composed.

My God that's a lot of birds! Very cool shot, sir!

I had to do a double-take on this till it clicked. Nicely seen Dave. I'd echo the "large print" comments above.

Brilliant title for a great capture! WELL DONE

I love it. Birds on wires always reminds me of something in the opening pages of a Stephen King novel, can't remember which. He was describing birds sitting on telephone wires..."hot gossip tickling their feet"....thought that was pretty awesome. Heh.

An interesting photo with a great title ...

Really like this picture, but I would change the colours a little more, making it a bit more "surrealistic." Mainly because the mood in this picture is hard to decide, it's halfway sad, halfway good.

WOW!!!! Party! Neat sight, thanks for sharing! I have not looked into Twitter yet....

great wow that amazing to see all those birds.. it reminds me of that pixar animation with them all on a telephone wire..

but great wide angle framing and use of the blue

Cool stuff! Makes think of pixar's for the birds. You've certainly got a few of them here. Love the background, you have to look twice to understand it's not pixel errors on the wires, but birds.

oh my ...

Simple and beautiful image! I can´t believe that those tiny black spots are birds, how many are they? 1.000?

Thanks everyone.

Gabriel: I did think about trying to count them all, but decided that it was probably not really worth the time it would take. There are a lot though :)

Amazing photo! I really enjoyed this one, everything fits just perfect. Great stuff, thanks for sharing! :)

RUN! This is truly a crazy amount of birds. It's a beautiful image and I actually like that there are so many that I can hardly tell there are any at all. It's actually quite a frightening image the more I look at it. Really great catch!

"A longer exposure is currently in the works, courtesy a San Francisco artist named Jonathan Keats: a 100-year exposure of a hotel room."

Don't you just know he'll come along half-way through and realise he forgot to take the lens cap off? :-)

Cool title and a very nice shot!

Nice!

brilliant! i love that you stood off and didn't succumb to the urge to shoot a more obvious angle. the color of the sky is sublime! done in lab?

wp.

will: this one was done in RGB using the Selective Color tool to add some cyan and remove some yellow from both the whites and the neutrals.

whenever there are lots of birds on a wire, my in-laws say that the birds are having church.

this one makes me smile. :)