this is brilliant!

What I like about it, is the feeling of it... not sure about the quality, but is the emotion that count? No?

This almost has a 3D feel to it, like the gulls are sticking out of the photo, I love it, how could this have been in your 'possibles' folder for so long ???

testypea: thanks.

Bernard: no, the quality isn't all that great, it's a little too (motion) blurred, but after my experiments this week with my FujiFilm FinePix I've decided that I'm less bothreed by that than I used to be.

Urbanite: the image quality was one issue, but mostly because I wanted to do this one in colour, but I just couldn't get a version I was happy with. I think this one works though.

Hey it if it makes you feel like your flying...which it does..then kudos.

This shot make me feel like I am 100 ft above the crowd coasting on that nice coastal breeze.

Motion blur often gives a sense of speed...a catapult into the universe..a perspective that we as humans do not get to experience.

With that said....well done.

Garth

Dave, very beautiful light. Quite dramatic.

I like it.

BELLISSIMA...

I guess I have mixed feelings about this one but unfortunately I can't articulate what it is that's bothering me. It is a very striking image and the contrast of the wings against the sky and clouds is quite appealing. My first reaction was that the overexposed top edge of the wings (on the bottom bird) was a problem but after looking at it for a bit, I've come to enjoy the graphic nature of that line. Of course, all that being said I do wish I'd taken the photo myself. :)

It's a nice compsition and I can maybe see why it was in the 'possibles' pile, but it is a keeper, I think no matter what niggles you about it the image has that x-factor needed to be a good shot.

It looks like they're playing tag ;-)

very surreal

Composition wise, this is nicely balanced and has a very moody feel to it. My impression is that the extraction/color tinting probably saved this one - otherwise the quality issues would have been much more of an issue. In this rendition, they are almost beside the point because you've created more of a mood than anything else.

I think because they are flying toward the dark side of the page, it looks almost like silently headed towards... something difficult. I don't know, maybe I'm reading too much in. Because the underwings of the main bird look very much like the clouds in the top left, it feels like they are moving from the familiar to the unfamiliar. Ha, a metaphor for your work lately eh? :-)

I don't know if this is good or bad, but the birds look like they have outlines almost all the way around. Gives this the look of a collage.

Very cool watching you experiment and push in different directions. Thanks again for letting us watch and participate in your process!

very interesting
something different but something similar of:
http://www.webgriffe.com/v5/photoblog.asp

this is one my favorite photos of yours!

It reminds me a bit of Winged Migration (the film)
I feel like I am flying right along with them .

It is graceful and elegant and simple beauty.

So glad you resurrected it!
This is why we need to share our work...
It amazes me what others see in some of my
work that I'm not that attached or connected to.

beautiful!
andrea

THEY LOOK ANGELIC TO ME....
Great capture!

How in the world did you do that? Zoom in?

I too would love to know how you took this...

It looks like you've used a monster zoom from the ground and caught these two cruising on a strong wind, but I know that isn't the case.

I found 4 aspects of the image interesting

-it reminds me of a scene straght out of 'Top Gun'
-my mind wonders about where they are flying... there almost seems to be something interesting to head to out of scene.
-the dark sky makes for high contrast btw the subject and background...
-i find the different cloud textures interesting...

How do you do it??? This is incredible. It was in your "possibilities" folder??? Gee, this would have been in my "Post it now you fool!" folder.

Fantastic athmosphere, good shot, man! I like photos like this

Ali and Daaave: this was taken at the equivalent focal length of 140mm. As such the gulls weren't all that far away from me. It's also worth mentioning that they were gliding into the wind and weren't moving all that quickly - if they had been I wouldn't have got the shot as the shutter lag on the G5 is too long to capture anything that moves. As it is, they aren't quite in focus, but there's just about enough detail to save the shot.

You have to stop taking so beautiful pictures.

now ! :-)

this is just great dave! the slight sepia(?) tone and the way the birds fill the frame...

Great shot. I love the lighting on the gulls, and the composition is nice as well. Like folks said above, they really leap right out of the picture on this one. Well done!

Thanks everyone.

Wow! Have you wings?
That´s one of the betters images I saw. Fantastic!

i have just spent the last hour of my life looking at your photographs.

i do not consider my time to have been wasted.

I love your work. Please could I put this photo in my blog? thank you ccc