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Posted by Tim Gregory on October 11, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Snooze
Came across this bull enjoying a good afternoon nap, tried some B&W themed shots out.

D700
24x70
0.75 hard grad
Red filter

Posted by David Sewell on October 11, 2009 at 4:56 PM
I love the expression on his face, and there are a great range of tones in here. I'm not normally a fan of b&w for wildlife, but it works well here.

David

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Posted by Mark Davies on October 11, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Oooh thats a bit different . As David says the mono treatment works well .
Posted by David Taylor on October 11, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Though not a lover of B&W normally, I certainly like this. Excellent.

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Posted by Craig Jones on October 11, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Beautiful :eek: :eek: :eek: love the B+W,and the wide-angle composition is brillant :wink: :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Ian Butler on October 11, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Thats brilliant. Really like this. The seal on its own would have been great but the added extra of the clouds is superb. Great idea to try it in B+W aswell. Works superbly. :toast: :toast:
Posted by Maggie Campbell on October 11, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Works really well in B&W. Lovely feeling of isolation. :toast:
Posted by Ian Macdermott on October 11, 2009 at 5:56 PM
A cracker Tim and lovely B n W conversion :toast:
Posted by John Robinson on October 11, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Very nice indeed.!
JohnR
Posted by Chris O'Reilly on October 11, 2009 at 7:06 PM
A crafted and effective shot. The animal looks really at ease - good work.

Guess we'll all be rushing to Donna with our wide-angle lenses now!

Cheers,
Chris
Posted by Brett Lewis on October 11, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Just superb.. very well seen and taken.. One of the best seal shots I've seen for some time.

Brett :toast: :toast:
Posted by Sandra Hendrikse on October 12, 2009 at 1:38 AM
This is very nice. The B & W works very well here. :smile:
Posted by Andy Shepherd on October 12, 2009 at 3:19 AM


Excellent piece of work Tim, this is your best post to date imo :toast:

Andy...
Posted by Robert Lawrence on October 12, 2009 at 3:47 AM
I too really like this one Tim. It certainly conveys a wonderful sense of isolation and the B/W works very well indeed. Top drawer. Obviously the seal didn't mind you being so close!
Robert
Posted by Peter Cairns on October 12, 2009 at 3:50 AM
That's excellent Tim. I can see this won't remain a novel idea for very long!

Pete
Posted by PhilH on October 12, 2009 at 3:57 AM
very nice... agree with Peter here, you will have many trying to emulate this....

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Posted by Barry Southon on October 12, 2009 at 4:15 AM
Tim

All been said excellent.
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Posted by Tim Taylor on October 12, 2009 at 4:28 AM
Fantastic! Just how I feel right now, Monday morning at work - LOL.

Tim :toast:
Posted by Tim Gregory on October 12, 2009 at 5:06 AM
Thanks for the comments :)

B&W is quite daring for me, quite glad it works as things tend to get very "marmite" when you start doing B&W enviro stuff.

Posted by Richard Peters on October 12, 2009 at 6:18 AM
A lovely image and very different from the usual we see from DK :toast:

Although as everyone else has said, I think we'll start to see others trying this too, which is going to result in a lot of photographers getting very close to the seals...and that is already a cause for concern at times...potential storm brewing...?
Posted by Marcus Conway on October 12, 2009 at 7:29 AM
Wow, high impact image. I'd love it without the Seal. Well thought out and executed. :toast:
Posted by Fran French on October 12, 2009 at 8:24 AM
This is very different, and special... you may have started a trend? Absolutely super!

Fran :toast:
Posted by Alan Bryant on October 12, 2009 at 11:53 AM
That IS a awesome image.

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Posted by Des Ong on October 12, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Lovely b&w Tim, works really well, love it!

Des :toast:
Posted by Lewis Thomson on October 12, 2009 at 7:38 PM

Fantastic image Tim, top class!

Cheers,

Lewis.
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