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Hi Jorne,

Good to see you back. This is definitely one of my favourite Jorne de Bruin images of all time. Elements that wrok particularly well for me are the general composition (I like how the cats are framed in that white V in particular), the progression from light foreground to dark background, the eye contract in both subjects, and those great snowflakes on the back of the cat on the right. I have one minor suggestion - to my eye the subjects themselves look just a tad too dark and slightly undersaturated (tho' on the larger version there appears to be a little more saturation on the cats). I'd experiment with selectively increasing the exposure/brightness on the subjects a small amount - maybe 1/3 of a stop or so. But overall very pleasing as posted and a very nice winter scene...

Thanks for sharing this...cheers...

Brad

Very very nice. I would like to see just a tad more detail in the snow, but the pose of the lynx, framed by the snow makes this image really stand out. The falling snow is an added bonus. Thanks for sharing.

I love the way the snowflakes are sprinkled across their backs. I like this one quite a bit. I might be tempted to crop a sliver of the foreground snow.

Sweet image. I like its clarity and the dots from falling snow flakes--oh, also the cats. I hear how elusive these cats are, and to get 2 in one shot is great.

Hey Ron,

Just an FYI that these are captive lynx - Jorne always mentions this in his posts but this time I think he assumed everyone remembered that his January trip was to a "game farm" style location (sorry Jorne if I didn't describe it completely accurately). I believe it was in Germany...but not 100% sure of this...

Cheers...

Brad

Hey Jorne, good to see you posting again here! What a lovely Lynx image, certainly one of your best as far as I can remember. I like the identical poses, the DOF, as well as the falling snow and the comp with that snow in the FG. For a print and presentation on the web I would consider cropping a bit off the bottom, but for other purposes the empty space at the bottom could be very usefull of course .

Thanks for all the nice commetns guys. Sorry about forgetting to add a captive tag, not used to it anymore, I did nto intedn to pass this off as wild.

FYI, this is NOT a game farm, but a wildlife preservation area. Since in europe these animals wherenot able to run free for a ong time (or barely) because of human interference (like cars and hunting) these parks aim to re-establish populations of native animals by greeding. The animals are kept in large natural enclosures so they can exhibit natural behaviour (as well as allowing photographers to freeze their ass off while waiting for mr pussycat to show it's face )

I really like the comp on this Jorne! I think the falling snow takes this one over the top for me! Nice post

great composition and the snow exposure is spot on. the twigs above are distracting; i'd have a go at cloning them if possible?

Jorne,

I'd love to have this photo in my files! The position of the cats, the contrasting foreground and back ground, and the falling snow all come together to make a great photo!!
The only minor nit is the dark twig above their heads which draws my eyes away from the cats.

Congrats!!!

Jorne,

I LOVE this comp with the snow in the bottom half...and the arching on either sides. The subjects are phenomenal, needless to say !!! The falling snow takes this over the top.

Thanks again everyone. Also eeing the lack of saturation now, original loks way better, I'll ahve to look at my webconversion emthods again