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• rousettus (12841)
• [2009-10-03 15:03]
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hello Loot,
nice to see you again after for a long time. welcome again.
this is great shot of beautiful cormorant with great POV, focus and eyes contact. but not only great capture, great notes. I also dont like copy and paste from Wiki. I also like to write original notes. many times, I spent a lot of time for this. unfortunalety long notes arent read usually (at least mine). but dont worry, somebody read it always.
thanks for sharing re-starting shot and congratulations your prize.
Sometimes I sent my regards for you via Anna's post. today, I will want from you to forward my best regards to Anna.
have a good night.
Ahmet

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• sranjan (4012)
• [2009-10-03 19:48]

Hello Loot,
Great to see you in action with Whitebreasted cormorant's wings fully displayed. Perfect POV & composition. We knew that you are around but busy with few projects which had kept you off from TN and many. Welcome back friend & a great teacher. You are one of the few whom I look for every now & then after switching on the internet. With you, every time, I have learnt something new only. Trust Anna is doing well. Today we (Anna, you & me) are neighbors on the TN and what a simily that even she has used "Good Bye" in her caption to the macro photograph....telepathy!!! Live live you couple. God bless.
Regards-Subhash

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• FunkyMunky (134)
• [2009-10-03 22:52]

Beautiful bird, beautiful pose, great photo, as usual! Have fun in Kruger and come back with some great photos!
Peter

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• ellis49 (30807)
• [2009-10-03 23:03]

Hallo Loot,
long time since I see you, old friend.
I hope the hard working days are over from now and you have more time fro your camera.
I think Anna is really happy know for this great prize.
About your picture: a nice drying pose of this cormorant,
It's well exposed with good sharpness and fine details.
Have great and safe trip to KNP, I'm a bit jealous ;-( but happy for you. :-)

See you when you are back.
Regards
Gert

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• roges (3180)
• [2009-10-04 0:45]

Hi Loot,

Exceptional capture a top title. Very good player photo. Colors excellent with a perfect BG.
A pleasant Sunday,
Adrian

P.S. A good come back and expect other exceptional pictures from you.

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• PeterZ (17640)
• [2009-10-04 1:06]

Hello Loot,
Great surprice to see a photo from you. It was waiting for a long time. This photo is marvelous. Excellent sharpness, details in a beautiful characteristic pose of the Cormorant. Superb natural colours, POV and OOF BG.
I wish you and Anna a wonderful holiday in Kruger with a lot of exciting photos.
Regards,
Peter

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• jcoowanitwong (12123)
• [2009-10-04 3:19]

Hello Loot,
Nice to see your beautiful photo again. Wish you a nice trip to KNP.
JC

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• sandpiper2 (14141)
• [2009-10-04 3:44]

Hi Loot

Please congratulate Anna for me, but credit must go to you as well, as her mentor (photographically); well done to both of you.
Great shot of the cormorant. Good composition and sharpness.

Chris

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• ferranjlloret (4742)
• [2009-10-04 5:39]

Hello Loot,
Excellent compositon and POV. Great picture of this common and nice species.
TFS. Best regards. Ferran.

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• foozi (9107)
• [2009-10-04 5:48]

Hi Loot,
wonderful cspture indeed. Im not for words for such a great nature photographer and brilliant and skillful PP guy.
Just wishing you all the best and you have given a tremendous input to me, learning from your presentation.
looking forward to seeing your wonderful shots in Kruger.

regards,
Foozi

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• xTauruSx (606)
• [2009-10-04 6:18]

Hello LOot, excellent shot of this cormorant.
Nice details and composition.
TFS and regards,
Deniz

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• bahadir (642)
• [2009-10-04 8:34]

Hello Loot, lovely shot of a cormorant in fine pose.
Details and colours are perfect.
TFS and regards, Bahadır

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• ingridshaul (301)
• [2009-10-04 10:01]

Hi Loot,
I am one of the beginners you refer to - and I wonder - is your Cormorant a Juvenile? As far as I can see in books, only juvenile birds are white all the way to the tail.

Your photo shows well the sheep-skin-like chest and the "dirty" neck.

I would be also interested to know, WHERE you you shot the bird.

I like the contrast between the bird's wings and the sky.

By the way, the Flightless Cormorants in the Galapagos Islands sit exatcly in this pose and look quite pityful with their remaining stumps - like war invalids. Unfortunately, I can not offer a photo: when we visited the islands we used 35 mm/slides - and in the hot Lowveld - the slides went all yellow and buckled... We projected them and took photographs with the Digital Camera, but the results are - only for us as reminders - not usable for TrekNature.

Kind Regards, also to your charming Miss Piggy
Ingrid

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• Hazara14 (12)
• [2009-10-04 23:16]

Hi Eksteen. beautiful short with nice catch well composed nice job
Hazara

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• horia (14904)
• [2009-10-07 1:43]

Hi Loot

GREAT to see another post from you, even if this is a solitary act nowadays...
I hope you'll post something cool after your return from the nice trip :)
This is a lovely shot, with a lovely timing to capture the cormorant drying its big wings. Despite the not too great light :( i think you managed to get the most of the details in the darker areas, too (even if that means having a little bit of noise). I would have done the exact same thing.
The composition is terrific and focuses the entire attention on the beautiful bird, while the DOF is spot-on, blurring the BG very neatly.
Overall, a pleasure to watch and read...as always from you!

Bravo and TFS
Horia
PS: i'm saving my comment from Anna for her first post with the new toys ;) Tell her i have high expectation, too! :)

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• smitha (3753)
• [2009-10-25 2:00]

Hello Loot,
Back with a BANG!! A stunning shot of the White Breasted Cormorant with wings spread.Excellent POV, sharpness and details. Good to see you back on TN. :)
Congratulations to Anna for winning the competition.
Regards,
Smitha.

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• Miss_Piggy (7377)
• [2009-10-27 6:14]

Hallo Loot
This is indeed a striking photo. The details captured is stunning. The shine on the black wide opened wings are WOW and really eye-catching. The wingspan of this Cormorant is really impressive and you have photographed it well. The white part of the feathers looks very fluffy, almost like small cotton balls. Your photography is done expertly showing the details captured on the face with great clarity, especially the sharp edged beak and the rosy pink around the eye. Thanks for sharing. Love.
Anna

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• boreocypriensis (34071)
• [2009-10-30 8:31]

Hi my dear Friend Loot,

An awesome and thematic capture of a beatiful cormorant in a lovely dynamic posture on the tip of a columnal wood from frontal POV with great clarity, nice DOF and delightful composition. I have to state that nice to see you again here MF! I missed your creative comment and critiques as well as your close friendship. Hope you will continue to uploading again!
TFS and have a nice WE MF!
Cheers,

Bayram

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• Alex99 (18601)
• [2009-11-04 9:10]

Hi Loot.
It is wonderful news, that you are still alive and kicking :). You managed to catch this impressive bird at so fine pose. Timing is really great as well as POV and framing of the scene at whole. Despite the contrast colouration of the bird exposure of the image and reproduction of all parts of the cormorant are spot on. Kind wishes and all the best.
Alexei.

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• CeltickRanger (15233)
• [2009-11-08 19:00]

hello Loot

excellent photo of this cormorant with the fine frontal POV
and the bird's typical pose, excellent timing to shoot the photo
at that moment, with fine focus excellent sharpness and details,
congratulations for Anna, TFS

Asbed