Taking Off

great capture. I really like the black background, gives the photo real impact.

Love your low key presentation

WOW – awsome image, very nice

Fabulous capture.

Stunning shot.

Nicely done. Congratulations on your feature!

This is so beautiful.

Stunning capture, use of negative space and mood. Well done and congrats on the feature. An instant fave.

Thank you all.

Just awesome.

Beautiful capture – and big congrats on the use of negative space and placing the ‘image’ in the black! Makes it so very special :)))

Brilliant….congratulations :)

Fantastic capture, very well done :)

It’s brilliant. I think I might prefer it as it is rather than having a background.

Gorgeous!

This is absolutely fantastic!

outstanding…..just excellent.

this is so elegant and graceful… gorgeous…

It’s beautiful!!!

SUBLIME – this is an incredibly beautiful and elegant work (I just saw someone else had written ‘elegant’, but it’s so true). Easy fave – what’s that about the wrong lens?!!!)

just STUNNINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it it no fun when you are always alone. nice. k

very beautiful!

Excellent shot!

Was this shot at night? just wondering, Don :)

Perfect!!! :)

Thank you all for the kind words and comments.
Joe.

excellent!

wonderful!!!!

You removed the background to create this? It is brilliant!!!!!!! Beautiful work, it is wonderful!!

Great photo, excellent burn/photoshop job on the background and water… Looks like you had the perfect lens for this shot. It wouldn’t have had quite the impact composed another way, and you might not have decided to burned the distractions out either. Wonderful catch!

Very nice :)

Great shot, I love swans.

Thank you all

This is an amazing capture!!

Sometimes things have to be wrong to make everything else right…... would you have made this magical image if the background had worked?
I’m glad things turned out as they did…...

grand!

The lens works for me. Great shot!! I love the negative space which really accentuates your subject. Well done!

Stunning, it fits perfectly in our First Things Group!

such an incredible shot! perfect on black.

Congratulations on your CHALLENGE WIN in the That’s Entertainment group’s Black in Back Challenge !
~Tracy

Wonderful BW! Well done :)

The background is perfect, the shot is superb!

Just totally classy.

Amazing capture, looks fantastic contrasted against the black, great composition! Congrats on homepage feature!

Oh. WOW!! That’s a stunning shot – absolutely brilliant. I note you say you had the wrong lens… I don’t know : it did force you into this particular treatment, and the treatment is brilliant!

I think wrong lens was meant to be, as without the background this image is simply superb!! Well done on the homepage feature, it looks great!

Rad!

Sublime and congrats!

stunning, fabulous shot!

Marvellous image. Congrats on very well deserved challenge win – it deserves more votes though. sorry I missed the voting ;-)

Hey front page congrats and this is devine…........,

Your timing was perfect.

Astonishingly beautiful

stunning image !

Dramatic in a way that probably would not have been possible with BG.
Congrats on Homepage Honouring

Absolutely beautiful!!! This is beyond fantastic!!

FABULOUS!!!!!

Wow, Just exceptional capture! Looks so good on RB Homepage!

Right place, right time … and Excellent capture !!!! with those little mistakes we make sometimes we end up with amazing results ;) Cheers, Mona

no, its perfect, with the simple black background…. enhances the white feathers of the swan so much more…

Awsome shot V

Right place, right time, right shutter speed, right photographer! Beautiful…

Absolutely brilliant! Congrats:)

Amaaaaaaaazing

Magnificent!

Perfect! I think the background gives the amazing dramatic effect.

Congrats!!!

Beautiful image!

im gob-smacked… incredible work!!!

The best accident shot I’ve seen!! WOW!!

Outstanding work and congrats on the home page!! WELL DESERVING the exposure!

simply stunning!

AMAZING! !

Beautiful.

Awesome image! Congratulations for the homepage feature.

Thoroughly deserved HP feature fella… You did well turning this into something exceptional by cutting out the background and going with the space. Brilliant work chap.

Rich

I have to comment on this one. Avesome shot and a fantastic PP work to make it looks that great.
My biggest compliments.
Wondershönes photo.
Viele grüsen aus Dänemark
Jens.

WOW!

Thank you to everyone for commenting,voting,buying and featuring this piece of work,and a special thank you to RB for featuring it on the home page.
Best regards.
/|\ Joe.

Simply amazing. An instant favorite.

absolutely brilliant shot. congratulations on the homepage feature. you know it’s good when you have to scroll this far down the page.

Background had to go? Then it is a great photograph that got a perfect treatment! Superb composition and tonality :)

Superb – it looks wonderful against the black.

A very original shot. The space gives it somewhere to go. Striking.

Loooove the low key presentation !!! Stunning!!! Instant favorite….:-))))

Wow.
Cant believe this pic has got so many comments….and all good.
Thank you all for taking the time to leave your thoughts and comments.
Joe.

CONGRATULATIONS! on the challenge win – I see why! Fantastic shot!

Congrats on your challenge win !!
I don’t know how to describe this image. I don’t think “stunning” is enough !!

Beautiful reflections and use of negative space !!:)

You may have had the wrong lens but the photograph is stunning.

Stunning…I agree with Ian…you may have had the wrong lens but this image is truly fantastic!

Marvellous! I would put the swan a little bit up and left.

Outstanding!!

Congratulations on winning the challenge! It was well deserved!

Beautiful Shot!

What a Fantastic shot!!!

Beautiful capture.

Took me a couple of days to scroll down to leave this comment and I’m speechless anyway.

Great capture

amazing capture! love the comp

S U P E R B

so cool

Awesome!

Congratulations on your challenge win. It surely is a magnificent capture.

Just marvelous many congrats on all your well deserved achievements with this beautiful shot!!

Great

Breathtaking Kodachrome. I want this blown-up in clear detail and stuck on my bedroom wall. I want it on my ceiling as well. And as my computer’s wall paper. It brings me much joy to marvel at such a wondrous work of art, thank you for sharing. :)

beautiful isolation of the subject

BREATHTAKING!!!

absolutely stunning.

It looks so content. Very beautiful.

wow!!! spectacular!

Phenomenal!!!

great !

Whoa, this is amazing

Fabulous image! simply awesome!!

You captured the most beautiful of wingspan displays. The other that I like is the full swept back extension on landing. Both are so powerful looking yet elegant in display…This a beauitful capture that you can be very proud of and would hang on my wall in a heartbeat if I could…well done

Beautiful! Unique and just stunning! Congratulations in your win in the top ten! Well deserved!

excellent

Great use of negative space… awesome shot

superb capture ! and I like the black background idea =)

Wow!! . . .

A great capture. Goes directly to my favourites.

excellent capture…
my best, francis.

Awesome work!!!!

a brilliant capture, the spotlight on the swan and the surrounding darkness really makes this a fantastic picture

Awesome!

Excellent image. love the editing.