What a fantastic day for you guys. Those are all beautiful Steve. I'm with Ken, the Boreal Chickadee and the Great Gray Owl stand out a little more for me.

27 today, no cool pics, just a year older:-) Happy birthday to you!

Absolutely stellar! Looking at your work over the last few months I can't help but to want to know about your post processing flow (not to suggest that you are doing a great deal of it). Your shots always really pop in my mind and I haven't been able to put my finger on what you are doing that takes a great initial capture and really makes it stick out. I am assuming that you are doing your shooting in RAW and working out the color correction, contrast, amount of sharpening, etc. I'd love some insight into your process (if your willing to share). Looks like you had a good birthday.

What a way to spend a birthday. Awesome series, but my faves are the hawk and owl. But then, I am more of a raptor sort of guy.

Michael, I didn't want you to think I was blowing you off. I just saw this.

There are some steps I take in PP with most images, but none that I automatically take with ALL images. I shoot some RAW, some jpeg. If exposure is easy and there appear to be no challenges, I'll shoot jpeg over RAW, but if there are any anticipated difficulties I'll choose RAW for the ease of alteration before opening the file. When I shoot jpeg, I shoot on "faithful" or "neutral" in picture styles so the camera isn't adding contrast, sharpness and saturation on its own.

Probably at some point I need to take an image and post the unaltered original, then a step-by-step on what I'm doing and pics through the process and then the final pic.

It's pretty involved as how-tos go

Looks like your birthday went to the birds.

Glad to see you had a good one. 29... So what does that make me.... like 14?

Sorry 'bout that post, couldn't help myself.....

No prob, man!