To me as someone whom obsessively makes images of wildlife,I don't know how saturated this image is............maybe because i'm at that stage,in my own learning curve or maybe because I don't know the species or the place or the light from real world life experience.......................... which begs the question:.how can one possibly evaluate light or colour or saturation if one has never seen this in the flesh??
To me the image maker did his groundwork had a vision in mind of an image he wanted to capture and got it.
So me personally I like the image, but I don't feel blown away like I should maybe??,for an image that has just won WPOTY. If I cut an ear in a hare I feel I've failed so a cut tail is already speaking to me.
Others might have more experience both with in the photography aspect and the natural history aspect. surely as an image maker we are questing for magical shafts of light in woodland to light our subjects,serendipity helps but that quest is already in place..I can't knock a photographer that found that it isn't just luck,a big player sure ,but not just luck
To me this is a cracking image that I have really not got the expertise to evaluate,but it doesn't blow me away like I feel an image winning a comp like this really should................ the winner of WPOTY should simply blow my mind,
I think that's my take right there,this is the winner of wildlife photograph of the year,it's cool but is it not mind blowing
it really should be !!
Stu
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