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edged out the bird, crop out a section of the background, enlarged and applied motion blur and used it as the background.

regards,

Arthur

who had the bag of chippys? bloody fantastic shot

Arthur, your pix's of seagulls are just the best .........

cheers
bp
EDIT: along with PSCS

Arthur, The Seagull Prince

If only our most common bird here was a Wedged Tail Eagle

That's a great photo! There's a lake at Fountain Gate?

Hi

Thanks everyone. Not really a lake - more like a big pond. It's near the entrance.

regards,

Arthur

Does the lake at fountain gate have a fountain as well?

I like what you did in PS Arthur. It sets the image off quite well.

Really nice. Really nice. I bet we have exclusively some of the best shots of seagulls around on here. Seriously, JordanP's seagull entry for the 2nd comp was one of the more unanimous winners. This is a winner too. Thanks for posting such a wicked shot. Any chance we could see the original?

Edit, Hey, I've got a thousand posts. Hmm, this could be a bad thing.

Killakoala wrote:Does the lake at fountain gate have a fountain as well?

I like what you did in PS Arthur. It sets the image off quite well.

Hi,

Yes it does.

regards,

Arthur

Top stuff!! Love it

just one thing that SORTA bothers me is the wing is a little too close to being cropped...very borderline.

can you bump the image back a bit?

Seagulls! reminds me of a nasty trick we used to do as young, bored kids. You buy a metre length of airplane rubber from the hobby shop and 2 small garfish from a fish shop. You tie a fish onto each end of the rubber and throw it to the seagulls. A gull will grab one fish and another gull will grab the second and off they go, wheeling and spinning....the rubber streching and stretching....until....well, it's a hilarious spectacle.

Matt. K wrote:Seagulls! reminds me of a nasty trick we used to do as young, bored kids. You buy a metre length of airplane rubber from the hobby shop and 2 small garfish from a fish shop. You tie a fish onto each end of the rubber and throw it to the seagulls. A gull will grab one fish and another gull will grab the second and off they go, wheeling and spinning....the rubber streching and stretching....until....well, it's a hilarious spectacle.

now there is a great action shot

Nicely done Arthur, both the bird and the background.

Mic, the wedge tail is probably one of the more common birds in my part of the world. Plenty of smaller birds of prey. No pics, so looks like I am going to have to get out a bit more. I am getting sick of photographing people and events anyway. Time to do something just for myself. Now where did I put that tele.....

Matt, you were a sadistic child!! Well, I imagined it... and had a good laugh!

Cheers

Matt

You've made an ugly bird look fantastic! Stunning picture sir!

Yeocsa Livingston Seagull

Thanks for the encouragement. Here's the original pic.



regards,

Arthur

wow, you really photoshopped that image

Now Arthur, come with us to WTP and you might be able to see something other than Seagulls