Swan, by Tom
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Today, Tom is our featured photographer on the DPNow Picture of the Day. There has been a thread on the DPNow forum debating the merits of a picture of a Moorhen, a common site with the swans in rivers, lakes, ponds and canals in the UK. That debate focused on the need for a better picture to be based on a more interesting subject than a Moorhen going around its normal routine business. Tom's picture of a swan is a great example of how photo of a creature like a swan can be transformed from ordinary into something very special. Besides excellent photography and post-processing of the image, maintaining all the subtle tones of the swan's plumage, the composition is superb. Yes, there may have been an element of luck in getting the swan as it it snaked its neck will preening, but patience and anticipation have paid off. Well done Tom!
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We are always on the look out for great pictures posted to the user-galleries here on DPNow. POTDs are selected from the gallery and featured every week day. The gallery facility here is completely free; all you need to do is register as a user on our discussion forum and you will get an automatic 25MB of space, which is good for around 125 pictures uploaded at web resolution, about 200K per picture. At the time of writing we had just over 12,000 pictures on the galleries and it's well worth a browse.
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The DPNow Golden Gallery
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