Birds Imitating Audubon

[Hirundo]

Not my photo but it's in the NG's Daily Dozen that you can download for free and actually found it in Birdchick's always interesting blog in an entry called Birds Imitating Audubon:

http://www.birdchick.com/wp/2009/03/birds-imitating-audubon/

What do you think? I thought it an interesting capture

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/your-shot/wallpaper/2009/img/0316wallpaperys-1_1280.jpg

[Colin Key]

Certainly a very dramatic photo, but to my eye it is rather spoiled by some over-aggressive post processing. It is over sharpened and over saturated, but also too much noise reduction has lost some detail, especially in the egret's wings, which have a rather "porcelainous", synthetic look.

Colin