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Hi all,
Thanks for the comments and votes on yesterday's tufty! Here is one which I appeared to have overlooked from earlier in the year (it was taken in February). As usual, it was taken at the LWT. As I entered Wildside, I saw this swan feeding in one of the pools by the path. I put my bag and tripod down and sat down on the grass. The water was perfect and I took this shot just as it lent across to feed. I just wish that I hadn't cut off a tiny bit of the bird!
Hope you like it!
Oscar 
| Camera: | Nikon D300S  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Lens: | sigma 50-500 f4-6.3 |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Title: | Mute Swan | |
| Username: | 
dewie | |
| Uploaded: | 28 Jul 2010 - 1:01 PM | |
| Tags: | Bird, Feeding, Food, London wetland centre, Mute swan, Nature, Neck, Reflection, Swan, Uk, White, Wildlife, Wildlife / nature | |
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| Votes: | 13 | |
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Shame about clipping the left side of the bird but if you have Photoshop, you could rectify that. If you'd been able to enable modifications, I would have done that and posted it as a mod. Super colour and a lovely pose.
Nice shot with great impact ~ As Lynne mentions if you have a post processing software this can be rectified or on camera by using a little more wide angle and careful composition in the viewfinder.
If in doubt a little more wide angle which will make cropping easier.
Very Good image Oscar
Well done
Doc
Ahh thanks Lynne and Tony, but I dont think I can change that now. I am not all that interested in that anyway as, in my mind, photographs should not be manipulated to that extent as it is not th eoriginal photograph. I have no problem with brightness/contrast, levels, curves, sharpening, cropping etc, but other than that I believe that the photo should show what was taken. Anyway, competitions like Wildlife Photographer of the Year dont allow it 
Thanks
Oscar
I agree with you that it's a bit of a shame that it's slightly cropped on the left side, but at least you noticed and it's something you can fix next time 
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