639th Show & Tell Competition: Pictures with birds, rather than OF birds - WINNER

[lambsfeathers]

Apology for lateness: Sorry, I thought I had done this, but nothing has shown up.
Admission: Judging was quite subjective, based on to what extent the response "Wow! I wish I had taken that" was evoked. The top three and the three HMs were shuffled around a bit.
Honourable mentions to two of Gill Kopy's entries and to Hugh's:



Third place to Ken Zaret's wonderfully timed wave, with the birds all in exactly the right place:

Second place to Peter Schmidt's place, which had me driving around that island with Google Earth street view looking for the location:

First place to Vijay Nanda's dreamy beach scene, because I absolutely loved it:

[gillk]

Great Paul I know this page does weird things some times. Congrats to Vijay and other winners - and thanks for the two HM's I liked the topic.
Gill

[emily]

Hi Everybody,

Great contest! I loved the topic and the entries.

Vijay has let me know that he will not be able to host the next competition. So, I have updated the system so that the second place winner, Arnie Peterschmidt, can host it instead. Let me know if you need anything.

Thanks,
Emily

[vj4000]

Thanks for the first place! It was a great topic with so many beautiful pics. Congratulations to all the winners.
Regretfully it is not a good week for me to run the contest.
regards

[peterschmidtab]

Congratulations to Vijay, well deserved! Thank you Paul for second place and an excellent theme. I will get to work on the next theme.
Arnie

[kzaret]

Interesting contest and congrats Vijay for a beautiful winner! Thanks for the third place.

[hughjones]

Thanks for the HM. Congratulations to all winners and contestants! Great topic. I especially liked how the focus was on integration of the object into the image and not on the object itself.