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SWAN LAKE


SWAN LAKE
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Copyright: Pablo Minto (pablominto) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 5735 W: 536 N: 5987] (27446)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-03-27
Categories: Nature, Decisive Moment
Camera: Nikon D50
Exposure: f/8, 1/500 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): 100 points or more [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-09-28 6:29
Viewed: 873
Points: 134
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This wetland in Central Norway is a popular pit stop for the migratory birds in spring.

When I passed by one morning in March 60-70 swans took a rest and some refuelling before they continue on the Northern flyway. The pond is still half covered with ice, but the birds seem to find their food any way!

Normally I don’t photograph birds, but then this is more like a landscape with swans and I could not resist when seeing all these beautiful creatures…

The swans are among the early birds on route, later other species will follow.

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Anjhello Scoring System:
DOF - 3 POV - 3 CREATIVITY - 3 COMPOSITION - 3
LIGHTING - 3 SHARPNESS - 3 COLORS - 3

Average: 3.00

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2 points: Average > 2.00

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tfs!

Bonjour Pablo,
Une très jolie photo de ces cygnes sur la migation, jolies couleurs et point de vue, Very pretty photo..
Mes salutations.
Michel

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  • gnada Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2662 W: 74 N: 4764] (21697)
  • [2007-09-28 6:56]

Bravo Pablo...
Another beautiful motive and a very nice shot!
Nice composition, beautiful colors, well dan...
Rgd. George

hi pablo, beautiful looking swans here, nice color, they must be freezing cold! thanks scott

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  • Janone Gold Star Critiquer [C: 3409 W: 0 N: 0] (0)
  • [2007-09-28 7:33]

Hello Pablo.
Sounds good. Nice picture of all those swans together. Seems to be lots of food in that water.
Greetings,
Jan

Hi Pablo,
another good nature shot. I like the unusual blue colour (which seems a reflection of the sky) in the mid ground :-)

Well done. Best regards, Daniel

HI Pablo, excellent shot of your out-of-character shot. They are difficult shots sometimes, for sure. TFS Love the Norwegian landscapes.

Hello Pablo
Beautiful realization. I like the agreement of colors of the background and the foreground. A beautiful color construction .
Good evening.
In a friendly way
Gildas

Hallo PAblo...
Verry nice Picture and..SUPER POV!
Regards,
Ella

Hello Pablo.

Wondrous image !!!
Beautifull and fine.
Good lights and a peacefull look.

Salutes, dear Pablo.
A great WE.

jean paul

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  • inaam Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1719 W: 5 N: 389] (1376)
  • [2007-09-28 9:24]

Hello Pablo,

A moment from nature is beautifully captured in this frame. Brown hue of plantation is attractive along with multi tints of blue from river are interesting. Such a pleasent landscape photograph my friend, well done.

Thanks for sharing this image.

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  • pozaru Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3565 W: 737 N: 2405] (19076)
  • [2007-09-28 10:09]

Maybe just a bit too much grey FG but I like this very relaxing scene. Thanks !


v

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  • clic Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 758 W: 0 N: 206] (4714)
  • [2007-09-28 10:44]

Hello Pablo
A spectacular overview on this flock of birds paused for a peptalk and to take the best of this apparently-sterile environment for feeding.
One of them at lower right seems to be addicted to exhibitionism!
I understand you could'nt get any closer for a shorter foreground.
Best regards.
Robert
Best regards

Hi Pablo, lovely view of swan lake, splendid light and colors, like a Tchaikovsky simphony, very well done, have a nice week end, ciao Silvio

Hi Pablo
Nice capture of the gathering of birds, even two of them are dancing on ice ;). Good light.
Regards

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  • juyona Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 2642 W: 1 N: 1264] (15445)
  • [2007-09-28 12:15]

Hola Pablo,
muy bonito trabajo,
la iluminación excelente,
bello pov. y tonos,
saludos

Hi Pablo!
I love all the layers of color in the water against the bright white birds. Beautiful shot. TFS
Donna:o)

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  • linus Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1477 W: 10 N: 738] (10767)
  • [2007-09-28 17:59]

Hi Pablo,
Nice one. I feel I can almost hear the music of Tchaikovsky.

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  • Beger Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3312 W: 788 N: 4424] (19910)
  • [2007-09-28 18:37]

Hi Pablo,
These swans will be back to South soon! Excellent catch with a beautiful POV and a superb blue! Bravo! Annie

Hello Pablo,

I really like this pOV alot well composed and captured photo excllent details very crisp well done

TFS Kyle

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  • jone Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor [C: 2254 W: 175 N: 0] (29118)
  • [2007-09-29 2:41]

Hi Pablo my friend ;)
waaaaw...what a beautiful moment and atmosphere...TFS
All the best,
J ;)

Hello Pablo,

Did you take this photo from the paradise? It's marvelous!
Congratulations!
TFS
Sergio

:) later

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  • Silke Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2847 W: 263 N: 5947] (23588)
  • [2007-09-29 4:18]

Superb composition and fabulous details, Pablo
This is a lovely image from your archive3s
TFS
silke
:D

Hi Pablo,

very beautiful image, nice capture of these swan group in a fascinating environment.

Well done!

Gio

Hi Pablo

That beautiful visual, it is not every day that we see scenes like this.
Great shot, of very good taste and good observation.
It's marvelous!
Congratulations!


Sérgio

Hi Pablo
Nice landscape with swans. Beautiful animals all ingaged in their own activities. Consider cropping out some of the foreground - it is flat and dull.

dan

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  • MLINES Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1305 W: 96 N: 1023] (8484)
  • [2007-09-29 16:24]

Hi Pablo. I am pleased to see your bird collection growing. Good clarity and notes about this well titled composition. Interesting that the birds are happy in water with ice all around. TFS. Murray.

Hi Pablo - This is a beautiful motif, and an unusual one, too. I like the combination of fine natural colours. Am wondering whether cropping a bit from the bottom would enhance the image further still? - Well done and TFS! Cordelia :)))

Hello Pablo,
very contrasting colors, the ice on the water, the winter land and these birds announcing the springs. The elegance of life in movement...
Ciao,
Violetta

Hi Pablo,

Your wanderings in the nature, give you the opportunity to capture wonderful scenes like this. The early morning lighting gives a special warmth to your shot and the composition is excellent. Nicely presented !
TFS,
Vassilis

Deear Pablo ,
nice shot with great composition.colours are beautiful too.
Thanks for sharing
My best wishes
Saeed

Pryvitanne Pablo!
beautiful!Really swan lake!good composition!nice colours! ALL made well my friend!;)
ALiaksandr

Bella foto, gran colorido y los modelos utilizados ,muy buenos

Hi Pablo,

Interesting presentation . . Nicely composed with spreading swans in the lake . .
Well captured . .

Tfs,
Tjutjut

Many thanks for your kind words on Ordinary Orchid .

Hello Pablo,
your compo is very pleasant to look at. Its more a still than a wildlife compo. You are a landscaper - aren't you? TFS Thomas

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  • milas Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2733 W: 412 N: 2987] (32833)
  • [2007-10-01 3:09]

merhaba myfriend Pablo,
muy bonito trabajo,
la iluminación excelente,
bello pov. y tonos,
SELAMLAR

Very nice compo in brown, white and blue, I like the sequence of colors and textures. I think it's absolutely great to capture those beautiful birds in their natural habitat and I'd like some closer view of them. Maybe you have some photo of this kind too...

TFS,

Andreea

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  • oanna Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 134 W: 14 N: 44] (939)
  • [2007-10-01 8:28]

hello:)
nice contrasts here.nice job with the light!

regards

never say NEVER my friend :-))
you made a photo from birds :-))

I like it....

Hi Pablo, something we don't see down here is migrating flocks of white swans. Many Northern birds migrate down to Tasmania. Nicely composed and apart from the swans the Scenery seems very tundra like. TFS,
David

Many thanks for your comment on ‘Willow in Fog III’

Hi Pablo,
Great composition with very nice colors. The water is beautiful and with the addition of those beautiful swans...superb!
TFS
Regards,
Lurdes

The birds are beautiful. The different colors of water are really incrediable. Now I know a bit more about Norway.

Hi Pablo,
You keep on confusing me with your archive photos. My first reaction was; WOW he got ice already! Then I saw the date. :)
I'm not a bird photographer either, eventhough I have taken a few, and like landscape photography as well. But a combination of wildlife and landscape is something I really like. I think it adds something extra to a photo. In this photo it is lovely to see all the different poses of the swans. The composition and lighting are a bit odd, but still fun to look at.
TFS,
Niek

Hello Pablo,
Very nice photo,good colors,congratulation.
Ralf

Hi Pablo,
Swans from You, too... Great POV, colours and sharpness, although I should have cropped more from the bottom. There's one thing I didn't understand in the note: You said You usually don't do birds, but I remember quite a lot of bird-photos from You on the 3 Trek-sites, even a series of 4 photos... Don't feel shame or whatsoever that You do bird photographs, You're very good in doing them!
Greetings, László

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  • chrisJ Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4248 W: 414 N: 6735] (42365)
  • [2007-10-03 2:32]

Hi Pablo

Good repetition of the white swans with excellent sharpness & soft lighting. I like the half crescent of ice around the lake top left. Tfs!

For a minute you got me fooled - seeing that ice I had to read your notes.
Pablo, good idea that you did stop and made a picture. Lovely touch that the swann in the FG right is spreading his wings.
For me again Norway's beautiful nature at best.
Thanks
Els
:)follow

Pablo


un verdadero paraiso te felicito


nat

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  • Fons Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1299 W: 2 N: 202] (15606)
  • [2007-10-04 5:51]

very beautiful visibility on the water with all those white swans

Hi Pablo, this is a nice scene. The birds are well captured and the colours are well done.

Good pov and composition.

Well done! Take care, Yan :)

Ps: many thx for your crit on "Islands in Pacific from Sea to Sky HWY" It is much apprecated :)

pl

Hello Pablo,

What a great shot of so many migratory swans!
There are very unusual colours, particularly the water! I like how the colour changes where it is still iced! Lovely composition and framing!

kind regards,
Bev :-)

Many thanks for you warm comments on 'Three of a Kind'.

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  • jan515 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2498 W: 56 N: 3862] (17484)
  • [2007-10-06 6:26]

Hello Pablo,
Good work with good success. The composition is Excellency. Professional. Class a photo, with wonderfull colors and a very interesting picture.
Greetings.
Janusz

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  • Mitra Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1254 W: 75 N: 902] (7908)
  • [2007-10-06 10:16]

Nice capture of the gathering of birds & light. Well done.
Mitra

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  • edal Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 599 W: 71 N: 645] (4306)
  • [2007-10-07 11:46]

Hello Pablo!
You have made a beautiful display of this swan society. What about their leave - have they gone already?
Best wishes!
Anton

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  • Emma Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1403 W: 6 N: 1920] (10151)
  • [2007-10-09 3:24]

Hallo Pablo,
so ein herrliches Bild hätte ich mir auch nicht entgehen lassen, fantastisch zeigst Du hier die viele Schwäne dazu die klasse Schärfe und super Farben. Wunderschön.
Liebe Grüsse
Eva

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  • jhm Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 258 W: 0 N: 97] (531)
  • [2007-10-11 0:03]

Hello Pablo,

Nice colourful picture with the swans on the lake.
Composition and frame are very well.

Greetings,
John.

Sounds like a Grig or Tchaikovsky....nice expression!

Malik & Mary.

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  • salmi Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 850 W: 5 N: 430] (4732)
  • [2007-10-11 6:55]

Hej Pablo!
I love this picture, it's very relaxing with those colors-blue, white and brown.
Thanks!
Mihaela

Fantástica escena amigo Pablo.
Lops colores en gradación son fabulosos.
Preciosos tonos los que imprimen como manchas blancas los cisnes...
Saludos, JL.

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  • kona Gold Star Critiquer [C: 68 W: 0 N: 1] (1258)
  • [2007-10-12 18:52]

wonderful shot ... excellent colours and tones

(kona)

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  • fff Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 603 W: 0 N: 40] (2724)
  • [2007-10-12 23:02]

Hi Pablo nice compo and beautiful colours it is remind me the time in Denmark too many swans there it is remind the fairytales when i was young tfs Shimon

Hello Pablo,

Lovely lake, my friend!! You presented it very well. Nice colors and POV. TFS

Kiran.

Hi Pablo,
I like how the colors go from blues to browns, and the white of the swans is echoed in the snow . . .
I'm glad you broke tradition and shot these birds . . .
Take care,
Karen

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  • HaBeMa Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 533 W: 33 N: 620] (3070)
  • [2007-11-06 11:27]

Hi dear Pablo;swan lake!! very good nature view,good shot....
Habema.
:-]

I never had that feeling of cold as i listening the Swan Lake. The Integral version is nice to listen... I rlet behind the classic those last years... It was never my principal kind of listening but i enjoy...

Apparently here they lost territory... With woods and dry herbs behind it's a question of layers who impress me!

Hi Pablo,
Beautiful combonation of blue, white and golden colors in this lovely pit stop. This must be an important breeding ground because it is unusual to see so many swans in one place.
Regards, Tom

hello Pablo,

what a lovely place for this swans to swim and play.. beautiful shot again.. i certainly love it.. beautiful warm colours.. excellent sharpness and detail.

good job.

regards, terry

Hello Pablo. The changing hues of the lake and the contrasting vegetation is excellent. The swans showered by warm lighting are excellent. Beautiful composition and thanks for sharing. Best regards. Jusni

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