Capturing the moment is what the photographer as managed to do here, the timing of the sun setting combined with the starlings murmation couldn't have been timed any better and for me that is the winning ingrediants for this image, the colours suggest a warm evening but as the photographer said it was a bitterly cold evening, looking at the image it could be mistaken for warmer climate not a bitterly cold evening in the UK during the beast from the east where tempretures in the UK plumeted..
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**This contest is open to photographers ranked between 251 and 1000 in this week’s <a href="https://www.photocrowd.com/photographer-community/">Leaderboard</a>.** A creature at full stretch is a sight to behold, and a challenge to photograph – but when your hard work pays off and you capture an image that reveals something about the power and speed of an animal, there are few things more satisfying. There is potential to shoot images for this competition almost anywhere. Birds scrapping over a feeding table in the back garden can produce a shot every bit as compelling and engaging as a cheetah hunting on a safari. You’ll want to ensure your images represent movement, be that ultra-precise focusing combined with shutter speeds of 1/1000sec or more to be certain everything is pin sharp, or playing with narrower apertures and slower shutter speeds to give a sense of movement and creative blur.
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Perseverance pays off in the image, bats are notoriously very difficult to capture inflight and even though the image is not as sharp as the photographer would like I personally think he as done an amazing job in managing to capture the bat inflight, setting everything up for the bat passing must have been no easy task trying to work out when it would appears so it's a hats off from me for an image I would have been proud to capture.
