Open Billed Storks at Sunset, Botswana, Africa.

This is sooooooooo fantastic!!!! Instant fav!!!

WOW, what a beautiful shot.

OMG this is beautiful, stunning composition and colours, a fave from me!!

Amazing in every way.

Terrific image. Well done!!

Awesome landscape/sunset photography. Great colours plus silhouette and very well captured! Beautiful work.

Quite magical, Barbara! Perfect composition.

so beautiful…

magnificent capture …how long did u have to wait for this shot ?....and please tell me you don,t photo shop

FAB picture…......
:o wow
:)

I always shoot RAW files, so of course I use Photoshop, it is only the same as using a Dark Room but without the environmental issues that all the chemicals would have ! There is nothing wrong with using Photoshop anyway in my opinion, Photography is an Art form that must always move forward, or face stagnation !!

It’s hard to find the right words to compliment such a beautiful masterly done artwork. Awesome!

Simply breathtaking. Such beautiful colors creating a perfect silhouette.

Beautifully composed ! Lovely sunset, beautiful colour !!

amazing!

and please tell me you don,t photo shop

Hi Barbara . . . I was about to comment on this colourful and dramic image when I noted the comment from Phillip Wise . . and your response . . so thought I would add this information for anyone else considering RAW or suspicious of the mysteries of digital processing . . as Phillip seems to be?

why should I use RAW

There are of course many ways to change to appearence of an digital image without photoshop including lens selection, apperture & timings, filters and more recently “picture Styles” that can be pre-set in camera . . .

. .I have experienced and photographed many fine colourful sunsets and sunrises, the digital sensor capturing something entirely different to what my eyes / brain [compensating] told me . . .this image looks perfectly natural to me

. . .the link is to a world of fine tutorials that enlighten us to the digital darkroom processes . . . and even if an image has been adjusted? so what? the interpretation of an artist with a brush is seldom questioned . . so why photographically are we constantly challenged to justify what we produce?

. . my sincere appologies for using your gallery as a forum soap box . .

I will of course forward this comment to Phillip also

M @ O W P

The great Ansell Adams quoted…….” We don’t TAKE a photograph, we MAKE an image”

The most manipulated images are Monochrome, shot on film.

excellent,

Truly beautiful!!!!

wow. beautiful. :)

Wow! This sunset shot was captured beautifully! There’s a lot I like about this picture. I like how you left the tree as a lone silhouette and I also like how you incorporated the birds into this picture to make it more appealing to look at. The other element of this picture that I like is how you positioned the rays of light on top of the tree. Overall, this is an incredible picture.

Congratulations, Barbara! Great shot!!

SUPERB

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