To my eyes this photo goes to the top of the class. Beautifully rendered, perfectly seen and composed for us to delight in the patterns and the harsh black to white high contrasted photograph. Marvelous, really like it...nicely presented. LOVE IT.

thanks still for the good review

Congrats Brian, very nice

thankyou

Congrats

Oh my goodness. I can't imagine walking peacefully along a path and then finding this "beast". How absolutely beautiful he is and you caught him with your lens! He is sharp and easy for us to see with a nicely chosen dof you softened the background and serendipitous that the background is colour co-ordinated. I like your crop and compositional style and the diagonal slant on which this prince sits! I wonder where this was taken...in Costa Rica perhaps? Nice one.

Fantastic picture. Congratulations.

A well executed long exposure image with great sharpness on rocks, showing us the grunge. The dof is good also with trees in the distance in focus. Although you have hot spots on the photograph, sometimes in life they are there, so why not in the photograph! The diagonal lead line of the tree takes us inside of the photo and your compositional style by using the horizontal cut rule of photograhy works. This rocks (pun intended).

Sharp image and that mound juxtaposed against the trees was an excellent way to shoot this. Thank you .